😀 "grinning face" emoji (copy and paste)
grinning face
A cheerful yellow face with a wide grin and open eyes, often conveying general happiness or humor.
Meaning of the grinning face Emoji
The grinning face emoji depicts a yellow face with simple, open eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Its meaning often conveys general pleasure, good cheer, or humor, making it a versatile expression of happiness. It is distinct from similar emojis like grinning face with big eyes or grinning face with smiling eyes, which have more expressive eye shapes. This emoji is commonly used to express joy or amusement in digital communication. It was approved as part of Unicode 6.1 in 2012 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Usage Examples
- Thanks for the gift, I’m so happy! 😀
- That joke was hilarious, I can’t stop laughing 😀
- Good morning, have a great day! 😀
- I’m excited for the weekend 😀
- You did an amazing job, congratulations! 😀
Alternative Names
grinning face, happy face, smiley, grin
Related Word Associations
pleasure, cheer, humor, happiness, joy, amusement, smile, grin
Appearance in OpenMoji
Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the 😀 grinning face emoji for cross-platform use:
PNG format:
SVG format:
Unicode Data
- Code Point(s):
- U+1F600
- Version:
- Emoji E1.0
Developer Codes
| Shortcode (Discord) | :grinning: |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :grinning: |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :grinning: |
| HTML Dec | 😀 |
| HTML Hex | 😀 |
| CSS | \01F600 |
| C, C++ & Python | \U0001f600 |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83D\uDE00 |
| Perl | \x{1F600} |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F600} |
| Punycode | xn--e28h |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%98%80 |
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