Smiling face with smiling eyes

Warm, sincere happiness with a hint of shyness. The rosy cheeks and closed eyes suggest gratitude, contentment or being pleased by a compliment.

Fits thank-yous, kind replies and gentle check-ins: “thank you so much 😊.” It is one of the safest smiles for work and family alike, warmer than 🙂 and calmer than 😄.

Facts

Smiling face with smiling eyes 😊 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face smiling. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :blush: or :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:. People also look for it with words like “blush”, “eye”, “eyes”, or “face”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

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

smileys & emotion · Unicode 6.0