Grinning face with big eyes Emoji

Smileys

A bright yellow face with a wide, open smile revealing upper teeth and large, circular eyes. It conveys a sense of genuine enthusiasm, excitement, and unfiltered happiness.

Usage Context

This is the go-to emoji for expressing that you are having a great time or finding something genuinely funny. It is much more energetic than the standard 🙂 and serves as a digital equivalent to an enthusiastic grin. People often use it to keep the tone of a message lighthearted and approachable.

History

Based on the classic 1970s yellow smiley face icon, this character was integrated into Unicode in 2010. It became a staple of early mobile messaging apps and social media platforms as a way to replace the older text-based emoticons like :-D or :D that defined late 90s internet chat rooms.

Details

Glyph

😃

Unicode

U+1F603

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f603:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE03;

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

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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