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 Microsoft
Category Smileys
Subcategory face-smiling
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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