Beaming face with smiling eyes Emoji

Smileys

A bright yellow face with squinting, crescent-shaped eyes and a wide, open grin that shows off all the upper teeth. The expression captures a feeling of genuine, high-energy excitement or amusement.

Usage Context

Used to express intense happiness, pride, or a 'cheesy' grin. It is the go-to emoji when you are genuinely laughing at a joke or feeling a sense of sudden delight. It is often swapped with 😄 or 😆 when the speaker wants to convey a bit more enthusiasm.

History

This emoji originated from the early graphical emoticons found on Japanese mobile phones in the late 1990s. It was officially folded into the Unicode standard in 2010 to ensure that universal happiness could be expressed across different messaging platforms and operating systems.

Details

Glyph

😁

Unicode

U+1F601

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f601:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE01;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-smiling

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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