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

&#xD83D;&#xDE05;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-smiling

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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