Smiling face with halo

Innocence, usually playful and often fake. It can mean being good or feeling blessed, but it more often comes with a sly “who, me?” after some mischief.

People pair it with harmless confessions, cheeky requests or claims of good behavior: “I only ate one cookie 😇.” Used sincerely, it marks gratitude, feeling blessed, or doing a good deed.

Facts

Smiling face with halo 😇 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. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :innocent: or :smiling_face_with_halo:. People also look for it with words like “angel”, “angelic”, “angels”, or “blessed”.

Timeline

1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

smileys & emotion · Emoji 1.0