<p>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;</p>

<p>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>.</p>

<p>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>.</p>

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Face with Tears of Joy

<p>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 <em>Whew!</em> and wiping sweat from the forehead.&nbsp;</p>

Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat

<p>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 <i>Squee!</i> or <i>Awesome! </i></p>

<p>Similar to <a href="/grinning-squinting-face/">😆&nbsp;Grinning Squinting Face</a>.<i>&nbsp;</i>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.</p>

<p>Because of its stuck-out tongue, note that this smiley may be applied or interpreted in suggestive ways.</p>

Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Tightly-Closed Eyes

<p>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 <em>ROFL</em>). 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>.</p>

<p>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;</p>

Rolling on the Floor Laughing

<p>A yellow smiley face melting into a puddle.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The eyes and mouth slip down the face, yet still maintain a distorted smile. This quality lends this emoji to sarcasm.</p>

<p>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.</p>

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Melting Face

<p>A yellow face with an open mouth wailing and streams of heavy tears flowing from closed eyes. May convey inconsolable grief&nbsp;but also other intense feelings, such as uncontrollable laughter, pride or overwhelming joy.</p>

<p>In March 2021,&nbsp;😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face became&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">the most popular emoji on Twitter</a>. It held this position until January 2022, when&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face with Tears of Joy</a> <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/tears-of-joy-just-about-returns-as-twitters-top-emoji/">returned as the top emoji on the platform</a>.</p>

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Loudly Crying Face

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

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Winking Face

<p>A whitish-gray, cartoon-styled human skull with large, black eye sockets. Commonly expresses figurative death, e.g., <i>dying</i> from extreme laughter, frustration, or affection.</p>

<p>Popular around <a href="/halloween/">Halloween</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/skull-and-crossbones/">☠️&nbsp;Skull and Crossbones</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p>Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.</p>

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Happy

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/grinning-cat-with-smiling-eyes/">😸&nbsp;Grinning Cat Face With Smiling Eyes</a>.</p>

Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Smiling Eyes

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Discord

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

Apple

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

Google Noto Color Emoji

<p>Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.</p>

Samsung

<p>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.</p>

Microsoft 3D Fluent

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

Microsoft

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

WhatsApp

<p>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.</p>

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Twitter / X

<p>Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.</p>

Facebook

<p>Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.</p>

Huawei

<p>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.</p>

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

Telegram

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

Noto Color Emoji, Animated

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

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

<p>Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.</p>

Skype

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

Twitter Emoji Stickers

<p>A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.</p>

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JoyPixels

<p>An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.</p>

JoyPixels Animations

<p>A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.</p>

Toss Face (토스페이스)

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

Sony Playstation

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

Noto Emoji Font

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

OpenMoji

<p>A licensable emoji design set.</p>

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Icons8

<p>An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.</p>

emojidex

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

Messenger

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

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

SoftBank

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

Docomo

<p>Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

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

Mozilla

<p>Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard to support emoji.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Completed in late October 2023, OpenMoji 15.0 provided support for <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0">Emoji 15.0</a> within the open-source emoji set.&nbsp;</p>

15.0

<p>Released 2022-07-05, OpenMoji 14.0&nbsp;debuted support for <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>&nbsp;within the open source emoji set. This update also modified&nbsp;several existing emoji designs.</p>

<p><a href="https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/releases/tag/14.0.0">More about this update.</a></p>

14.0

<p>Released 2021-06-29, OpenMoji 13.1&nbsp;included support for Emoji 13.1&nbsp;emojis. <a href="https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/releases/tag/13.1.0">More about this update.</a></p>

13.1

<p>Released 2020-11-13, OpenMoji 13.0 included support for Emoji 13.0 emojis. It also updated several previously released designs to have a new gender-inclusive appearance. <a href="https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/tree/13.0.0">More about this update</a>.</p>

13.0

<p>Released 2020-05-22, OpenMoji 12.3 <a href="https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/releases/tag/12.3.0">increased</a> partial&nbsp;support for&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. A total of 17 new emojis were added to the set, while 4 designs were modified.</p>

12.3

12.2

<p>The second release of OpenMoji released on 2019-05-15, with full support for <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>.</p>

12.0

<p>The first version of OpenMoji released on 2018-04-02 with support for a subset of <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>.</p>

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