๐ Face with Tears of Joy
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with a big grin, uplifted eyebrows, and smiling eyes, each shedding a tear from laughing so hard. Widely used to show something is funny or pleasing.
Named the Oxford Dictionaries 2015 Word of the Year, and the most used emoji on all platforms from 2011-2021. Briefly overtaken as the top emoji on Twitter in 2021 by ๐ญ Loudly Crying Face, though as of January 2022 it has reclaimed its top position on the platform.
See also: ๐คฃ Rolling on the Floor Laughing which expresses more intense laughter; or cat variant: ๐น Cat Face With Tears of Joy.
Face with Tears of Joy was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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Also Known As
- ๐ Laughing
- ๐ Laughing Crying
- ๐ Laughing Tears
- ๐ LOL
Apple Name
๐ Face with Tears of Joy
Codepoints
Shortcodes
- :joy: (Github, Slack)
- :face_with_tears_of_joy: (Emojipedia)
See also
- ๐น Cat with Tears of Joy
- ๐ข Crying Face
- ๐ Grinning Face
- ๐คฉ Star-Struck
- โค๏ธ Red Heart
- ๐ญ Loudly Crying Face
- ๐คฃ Rolling on the Floor Laughing
- ๐ Skull
- โ ๏ธ Skull and Crossbones
- ๐ Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes
- ๐ Grinning Face with Sweat
- ๐ Grinning Squinting Face
- ๐คง Sneezing Face
- ๐ซ Tired Face
Browse
- ๐ on Instagram
- ๐ on Twitter
- ๐ on Wikipedia
- ๐ on Yelp
- ๐ on YouTube
- ๐ on Google Trends
- ๐ on Nomad List
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Related Links
- ๐ Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year Is Not a Word
- ๐ Have We Reached Peak Tears Of Joy?
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- ๐ Is the Laughing Crying Emoji Cancelled? Here's What We Know.
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- ๐ The โtears of joyโ emoji is the worst of all
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