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Has the same grin and eyes as&nbsp;<a href="/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😄 Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes</a>&nbsp;but with a single, blue bead of sweat, usually over its left eye. Intended to depict nerves or discomfort but commonly used to express a close call, as if saying Whew! and wiping sweat from the forehead.&nbsp;

Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat

A yellow face with a big&nbsp;grin, uplifted eyebrows, and smiling eyes, each shedding a tear from laughing so hard. Widely used to show something is funny or pleasing.&nbsp;

Named the Oxford Dictionaries 2015 <a href="https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2015/">Word of the Year</a>, and the most used emoji on all platforms <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">from 2011-2021</a>. Briefly <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">overtaken</a> as the top emoji on <a href="/twitter/">Twitter</a> in 2021 by&nbsp;<a href="/loudly-crying-face/">😭 Loudly Crying Face</a>, though as of January 2022 it has <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/tears-of-joy-just-about-returns-as-twitters-top-emoji/">reclaimed its top position on the platform</a>.

See also:&nbsp;<a href="/rolling-on-the-floor-laughing/">🤣&nbsp;Rolling on the Floor Laughing</a>&nbsp;which expresses more intense laughter;&nbsp;or cat&nbsp;variant:&nbsp;<a href="/cat-with-tears-of-joy/">😹&nbsp;Cat Face With Tears of Joy</a>.

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Face with Tears of Joy

A yellow face with a big grin and scrunched, X-shaped eyes, tilted on its side as if rolling on the floor laughing (the internet acronym ROFL). Sheds&nbsp;two tears and tilts right on most platforms. Often conveys hysterical laughter&nbsp;more intense than <a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face With Tears of Joy</a>.

Microsoft&#39;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/rolling-on-the-floor-laughing/">previously featured</a> a smiley with hands and feet.&nbsp;

Rolling on the Floor Laughing

A yellow face with raised eyebrows, a small, closed mouth, wide, white eyes staring straight ahead, and blushing cheeks. Intended to depict such feelings as&nbsp;embarrassment, but meaning very widely varies. Other senses include flattery, surprise, disbelief, admiration, affection, and excitement.

Google&#39;s design <a href="/google/android-4.4/flushed-face/">previously featured</a> a more bashful expression and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/flushed-face/">Samsung</a>, a more ashamed one. An <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/flushed-face/">early Microsoft design</a> featured an awkward smile.

Flushed Face

A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general happiness and good-natured amusement.

Similar to&nbsp;<a href="/grinning-face/">😀 Grinning Face</a> and <a href="/grinning-face-with-big-eyes/">😃&nbsp;Grinning Face With Big Eyes</a>, but with warmer, less excited eyes.

This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/grinning-cat-with-smiling-eyes/">😸&nbsp;Grinning Cat Face With Smiling Eyes</a>.

Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Smiling Eyes

A yellow face sticking out its <a href="/tongue/">tongue</a> and making a zany wink, usually shown with its right eye closed and left wide open. Often conveys a sense of fun, excitement, wackiness, buffoonery, or joking.

Generally goofier than <a href="/face-with-tongue/">😛&nbsp;Face With Tongue</a> and <a href="/squinting-face-with-tongue/">😝&nbsp;Squinting Face With Tongue</a> but less &quot;crazy&quot; than <a href="/zany-face/">🤪&nbsp;Zany Face</a>.

Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Winking Eye

A yellow face with scrunched, X-shaped eyes and a big grin, sticking out its <a href="/tongue/">tongue</a>. Often conveys a sense of fun, excitement, playfulness, hilarity, and happiness, as if saying Squee! or Awesome! 

Similar to <a href="/grinning-squinting-face/">😆&nbsp;Grinning Squinting Face</a>.&nbsp;Generally more exuberant than <a href="/face-with-tongue/">😛&nbsp;Face With Tongue</a> and <a href="/winking-face-with-tongue/">😜&nbsp;Winking Face With Tongue</a>. Samsung <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/squinting-face-with-tongue/">previously featured</a> a more sour expression.

Because of its stuck-out tongue, note that this smiley may be applied or interpreted in suggestive ways.

Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Tightly-Closed Eyes

A yellow face with a slight&nbsp;smile or open mouth&nbsp;shown winking, usually its left eye. May signal&nbsp;a joke, flirtation, hidden meaning, or general positivity. Tone varies, including playful, affectionate, suggestive, or ironic.

Not to be confused with the more mischievous or&nbsp;sexual&nbsp;<a href="/smirking-face/">😏 Smirking Face</a>.&nbsp;An emoji form of the ;) emoticon.

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Winking Face

A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, closed smile turning up to rosy cheeks. Often expresses genuine happiness and warm, positive feelings.

An emoji form of the ^^ emoticon.

On&nbsp;<a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a>, this emoji next to a contact denotes that you message that&nbsp;person often but they aren&#39;t your&nbsp;#1 Best Friend.

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Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes

A single, light blue droplet, as of water, sweat, or tears.

May be used for various types of liquid. May also be used to expression sadness, as in <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a>,&nbsp;or for various liquid-based slang expressions (e.g., drip, &ldquo;exceptional style, swagger&quot;).

Not to be confused with <a href="/sweat-droplets/">💦 Sweat Droplets</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Droplet

A yellow face with closed eyes, frown, and a bead of sweat dripping from its forehead. Usually depicted with a single sweat bead on its right side, though Facebook and WhatsApp include the sweat bead on its left side.

Meaning widely varies, but commonly conveys a moderate degree of sadness, pain, frustration, or disappointment, similar to <a href="/crying-face/">😢&nbsp;Crying Face</a> and <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad But Relieved Face</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/grinning-face-with-sweat/">😅&nbsp;Grinning Face With Sweat</a> or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets.

Google&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-8.0/downcast-face-with-sweat/">previously featured</a> a blue face. Microsoft <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/downcast-face-with-sweat/">previously depicted</a> multiple beads of sweat from around the smiley&rsquo;s forehead. Earlier designs <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/downcast-face-with-sweat/">from Samsung</a> had more <a href="/pleading-face/">pleading</a> eyes.

Face with Cold Sweat

Three, light blue droplets, as sweat beads, splashing down to the right. Resembles&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexicon_of_Comicana">plewds</a>, stylized sweat droplets used in comics and animation to show characters working hard or feeling stressed.

May be used to represent various types of liquids, including sexual fluids. May also be used to represent various liquid-based slang expressions (e.g., drip, &ldquo;exceptional style, swagger&quot;).

Not to be confused with <a href="/droplet/">💧 Droplet</a>, though their applications may overlap.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/sweat-droplets/">Google</a>, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/sweat-droplets/">Microsoft</a>, and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/sweat-droplets/">Samsung&#39;s</a> design previously featured two, upwardly directed droplets.

Splashing Sweat Symbol

A classic smiley, turned upside down. Implemented as a flipped version of&nbsp;<a href="/slightly-smiling-face/">🙂 Slightly Smiling Face</a>&nbsp;on most platforms.

Commonly used to convey&nbsp;irony, sarcasm, joking, or a sense of goofiness or silliness.&nbsp;Its intent can be&nbsp;similar to the bemused Oh well! of <a href="/person-shrugging/">🤷&nbsp;Person Shrugging</a> or the shruggie emoticon, &macr;\_(ツ)_/&macr;.

Microsoft&#39;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/upside-down-face/">previously featured</a> a full-toothed grin.

Upside-Down Face

A yellow smiley face melting into a puddle.&nbsp;

The eyes and mouth slip down the face, yet still maintain a distorted smile. This quality lends this emoji to sarcasm.

Can be used literally to talk about extreme heat. Can also be used metaphorically to talk about embarrassment, shame, a slowly sinking sense of dread, or feeling overwhelmed in some way.

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Melting Face

A yellow face with raised eyebrows and a slight frown, shedding a single, blue tear from one eye down its cheek. May convey a moderate degree of sadness or pain, usually less intensely than <a href="/loudly-crying-face/">😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face</a>.

Not to be confused with <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad but Relieved Face</a>, <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪&nbsp;Sleepy Face</a>, or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/crying-face/">previously featured</a> tears welling up in both eyes.

This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/crying-cat/">😿&nbsp;Crying Face</a>.

Crying Face

A yellow face with simple open eyes showing clenched teeth. May represent a range of negative or tense emotions, especially nervousness, embarrassment, or awkwardness (e.g., Eek!).

Resembled <a href="/beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😁 Beaming Face With Smiling Eyes</a> on Apple iOS <a href="/apple/ios-8.3/beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes/">prior to 2016</a>. Apple&rsquo;s design for <a href="/cold-face/">🥶 Cold Face</a> features the same mouth. Samsung&#39;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/grimacing-face/">previously featured</a> more puckered-looking lips.&nbsp;

On&nbsp;<a href="/snapchat/" title="👻 Snapchat Emoji &amp; Emoticon Meanings">Snapchat</a>, this&nbsp;emoji next to a contact denotes that you send the most snaps to the same person that they do., i.e.,&nbsp;you share a #1 Best Friend.

Grimacing Face

A face with open eyes and a small, open frown. Its eyebrows are furrowed, with a single bead of cold sweat dripping down, and its forehead is pale blue, as if experiencing a <a href="/cold-face/">cold</a> flash. Samsung&#39;s design shows upper teeth and tongue.

Meaning widely varies, but commonly conveys such feelings as sadness, disappointment, fear, and anxiety. Similar to <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad but Relieved Face</a>, but with a blue head and larger frown.

Not to be confused with <a href="/crying-face/">😢&nbsp;Crying Face</a>, <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪&nbsp;Sleepy Face</a>, or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets. <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/anxious-face-with-sweat/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/anxious-face-with-sweat/">Samsung</a> previously featured smileys that appeared more excited in expression.

Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat

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Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

A licensable emoji design set.

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An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard to support emoji.

Some characters in <a href="/unicode-5.2/">prior</a>&nbsp;versions of Unicode were retroactively updated to provide&nbsp;an emoji presentation. This release was the first to introduce new characters for the sole purpose of compatability with emojis being used in Japan.

SoftBank&nbsp;is a Japanese carrier&nbsp;which had its own emoji set for the years 1997&mdash;2016. SoftBank (known as J-Phone at the time) created the&nbsp;first known&nbsp;emoji set. The SoftBank emoji designs&nbsp;heavily influenced&nbsp;<a href="/apple/iphone-os-2.2/">Apple&#39;s original emoji font</a>&nbsp;which was&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/apples-emoji-evolution-1997-2018/">designed to be compatible with this set</a>&nbsp;when launching in Japan, due&nbsp;to iPhone being a SoftBank-exclusive phone when first released.

SoftBank&nbsp;<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.softbank.jp%2Fmobile%2Finfo%2Fpersonal%2Fsoftware%2F20170120-02%2F&amp;edit-text=">announced</a> it would switch to using Google emoji designs from 2016, for&nbsp;phones supporting <a href="/google/android-7.0/">Android 7.0</a> or above. SoftBank no longer releases&nbsp;updates to this emoji set.

📲 SoftBank Emoji List — Original Emojis from SoftBank in Japan

The last update to SoftBank&#39;s emoji set was released in 2014 and discontinued in 2016. This release added 277 new characters

A minor update to this set removed regional indicators in 2016, but otherwise delivered no new changes.

2014

First launched 1997-11-01 on the&nbsp;SkyWalker service which was&nbsp;launched in Japan on the&nbsp;DP-211SW mobile phone.&nbsp;May have been the first emoji set in existence. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/correcting-the-record-on-the-first-emoji-set/">More about this set</a>.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

😅 Grinning Face with Sweat on SoftBank 1997

😅 Grinning Face with Sweat on SoftBank 1997

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