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😅 Grinning face with sweat

cold dejected excited face grinning mouth nervous open smile smiling stress stressed sweat

Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subcategory: Smiling Faces
Also known as: smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat
Shortcode
Unicode version: 6.0 (2010)
Emoji version: 0.6 (2010)
Status: fully-qualified

What the 😅 emoji means

A grin with a bead of sweat. Relief mixed with awkwardness — laughing at something that went wrong but could have gone worse.

Useful for admitting a small mistake without sounding defensive. Often softens an apology that would otherwise read as flat.

Chat examples

Will your readers see 😅

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

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Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the 😅 emoji is used

The 😅 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how grinning face with sweat is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

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😅 Your deviceNative system font
Noto Color Emoji Apache License 2.0 💾 SVG
OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0 💾 SVG
Twemoji CC BY 4.0 💾 SVG

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English	grinning face with sweat
Русский	нервно смеется
Deutsch	grinsendes Gesicht mit Schweißtropfen
Español	cara sonriendo con sudor frío
Français	visage souriant avec une goutte de sueur
Polski	uśmiechnięta twarz z otwartymi ustami, oblana zimnym potem
Dansk	grinende ansigt med sveddråbe
Українська	широко всміхнене обличчя з потом
Português	rosto risonho com gota de suor

Unicode CLDR 48

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