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
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Smileys
Subcategory face-smiling
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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