U+263A U+FE0F
☺️ Smiling face
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Subcategory
- Affectionate Faces
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 6.0 (2010)
- Emoji version
- 0.6 (2010)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the ☺️ emoji means
A small round face with a closed smile — the oldest smiley in Unicode, from 1993, long before emoji existed.
Its age shows: it renders smaller than the rest and reads as gentler, almost old-fashioned. Popular with older users, which younger ones sometimes read as a generational marker.
Chat examples
What ☺️ is made of
This symbol is written with several code points rather than one. Here is what stands behind it, in order.
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☺
symbol
U+263A -
️
«draw as a picture» marker
U+FE0F
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.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
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 smiling face is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- ☺️ Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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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 | smiling face |
|---|---|
| Русский | улыбается |
| Deutsch | lächelndes Gesicht |
| Español | cara sonriente |
| Français | visage souriant |
| Polski | uśmiechnięta twarz |
| Dansk | smilende ansigt |
| Українська | усміхнене обличчя |
| Português | rosto sorridente |
Unicode CLDR 48