Grinning face with sweat Emoji
Smileys
A yellow face with a wide, open-mouthed grin and a single blue bead of sweat trickling down its forehead. The expression captures the awkward mix of feeling nervous, relieved, or sheepish after a close call.
Usage Context
Used to signal that you’ve survived a stressful situation or managed to avoid disaster by the skin of your teeth. It is the go-to response when you are laughing off a mistake, admitting you were late, or reacting to a particularly intense situation. It pairs well with 😰 to show lingering anxiety or 😂 to emphasize the absurdity of a blunder.
History
Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this emoji emerged as part of the massive expansion of the emoji set to support global messaging platforms. It stems from Japanese manga conventions where a bead of sweat is drawn on a character's head to indicate nervousness, exhaustion, or being put on the spot.
Details
Glyph
😅
Unicode
U+1F605
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f605:
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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