Slightly smiling face
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- Shortcode
:slightly_smiling_face:- Unicode
U+1F642- HTML
🙂- CSS
\1F642- JavaScript
"\u{1F642}"- URL
%F0%9F%99%82
What ๐ means
A small, polite smile. On the surface it means โokayโ or โsounds good,โ but it often carries tension: forced calm, quiet annoyance or sarcasm.
Older users and many workplaces use it sincerely as a friendly closer. Among younger users it can feel cold or passive-aggressive, as in โSure, I'll fix it again ๐.โ The relationship and the words around it decide which reading wins.
Facts
Slightly smiling face ๐ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face smiling. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :slightly_smiling_face:. People also look for it with words like โfaceโ, โhappyโ, โslightlyโ, or โsmileโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
- 20232 new emoji built from it (Emoji 15.1)๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2020
2026
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.