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<p>A yellow face with simple, open eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general pleasure and good cheer or humor.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/grinning-face-with-big-eyes/">😃 Grinning Face With Big Eyes</a>&nbsp;or <a href="/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😄 Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes</a>, which have the same smiles but more expressive eye shapes.&nbsp;</p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/grinning-cat/">😺 Grinning Cat Face</a>.</p>

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Grinning Face

<p>A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/grinning-face/">😀 Grinning Face</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.</p>

Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth

<p>A yellow face with smiling eyes and full-toothed grin, as if saying <em>Cheese!</em>&nbsp;for the camera.&nbsp;Teeth may be smoothed-over or crosshatched. Often expresses a radiant, gratified happiness. Tone varies, including warm, silly, amused, or proud.</p>

<p><a href="/apple/ios-6.0/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">Prior to 2017</a>, Apple&#39;s design resembled its&nbsp;<a href="/grimacing-face/">😬 Grimacing Face</a>.</p>

Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes

<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>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

<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>Yee-haw! A yellow smiley wearing a wide-brimmed, brown-leather cowboy hat. Its smile varies across platforms.&nbsp;May convey a sense of exuberance, whimsy, confidence, adventure, or other sentiments.</p>

<p>Several vendors, including Apple, feature&nbsp;the same expression as their <a href="/grinning-face-with-big-eyes/">😃 Grinning Face With Big Eyes</a>.</p>

Face with Cowboy Hat

<p>A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, closed smile turning up to rosy cheeks. Often expresses genuine happiness and warm, positive feelings.</p>

<p>An emoji form of the ^^ emoticon.</p>

<p>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;<em>#1 Best Friend</em>.</p>

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Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes

<p>A yellow face with open eyes, a thin closed-mouth smile, and a single tear falling from one of its eyes. Can be used to express a wide range of emotions and expressions&nbsp;including gratitude, tender happiness, an attempt to look happy when actually sad, or&nbsp;smiling through pain. Can also be a response to something that is bittersweet.</p>

<p>This emoji and <a href="/slightly-smiling-face/">🙂 Slightly Smiling Face</a> have a similar smile, and <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a> and <a href="/crying-cat/">😿 Crying Cat</a> have a similar lone tear. Not to be confused with&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face with Tears of Joy</a>, which has a wide toothy grin&nbsp;and tears coming from both eyes.</p>

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Smiling Face with Tear

<p>A yellow face with a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth on most platforms, with stars for eyes, as if seeing a beloved celebrity. Color of stars widely varies by platform, though commonly gold or red. May express that someone or something is amazing, fascinating, impressive, or exciting.</p>

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Grinning Face with Star Eyes

<p>A sun with a smiling face, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_of_May">Sun of May</a>. Generally depicted as a golden-yellow disc with a smiling, often human face with a nose, radiating triangular&nbsp;rays, representing the sun&#39;s heat and light.</p>

<p>May be used to represent the sun more generally. Also used to represent sunny, warm, or hot weather and various positive and happy (<em>sunny</em>) feelings.</p>

<p>See also <a href="/sun/">☀️&nbsp;Sun</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/bright-button/">🔆&nbsp;Bright Button</a> or <a href="/dim-button/">🔅&nbsp;Dim&nbsp;Button</a>.</p>

<p>Apple, WhatsApp, and Facebook&#39;s suns feature human faces. Other platforms, including Twitter, feature a simple smiley, as <a href="/slightly-smiling-face/">🙂&nbsp;Slightly Smiling Face</a>.</p>

<p>Microsoft&#39;s eyes <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/sun-with-face/">previously</a> appeared open, though they were also closed in the platform&#39;s <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.0/sun-with-face/">early designs</a>.&nbsp;<a href="/facebook/2.0/sun-with-face/">Facebook&#39;s</a> expression previously resembled <a href="/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😁&nbsp;Beaming Face With Smiling Eyes</a>.</p>

Sun with Face

<p>A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😄 Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.</p>

Grinning Cat Face with Smiling Eyes

<p>A classic smiley.&nbsp;A yellow face with a modest smile, rosy cheeks, and soft, closed eyes. Many platforms, including Apple, feature relaxed eyebrows. Conveys a wide range of warm, positive feelings, including love, happiness, and gratitude.</p>

<p>Similar to <a href="/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😊&nbsp;Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes,</a> which has a broader smile, no eyebrows, and smiling eyes.</p>

<p>This smiley predates Unicode emoji support. In its Unicode name of <em>White Smiling Face</em>, <em>white</em>&nbsp;does <u>not</u> refer to skin tone or ethnicity.&nbsp;See the glossary for the&nbsp;term&nbsp;<em><a href="/glossary/#white" title="📖 Glossary">white</a></em>&nbsp;in Unicode character names.</p>

White Smiling Face

<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 <a href="/grinning-face/">😀 Grinning Face</a>&nbsp;but&nbsp;with taller, more excited eyes.&nbsp;</p>

Smiling Face with Open Mouth

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

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

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

<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>

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

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

<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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<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>

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

<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>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.</p>

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

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

<p>A small update to the much larger Unicode 6.0. Unicode 6.1 included 13 new emoji characters.</p>

<p>WhatsApp has its own emoji designs which are displayed on all WhatsApp for Android and WhatsApp Web.</p>

<p>One emoji supported by WhatsApp but no other platform is the&nbsp;<a href="/flag-for-texas-ustx/">Texas Flag emoji</a>. This is a valid subdivision flag supported by Unicode, but not listed within any Unicode emoji release and as of 2019 is not supported by any other major vendors.</p>

<p>In 2021 WhatsApp introduced a&nbsp;<a href="/refugee-nation-flag/">Refugee Nation Flag</a> as a <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ sequence</a>. Like the <a href="/flag-for-texas-ustx/">Texas Flag emoji</a>, this&nbsp;flag is&nbsp;not supported by any other major vendors.</p>

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Names and meanings of all the emojis in WhatsApp for iPhone, Web, Android and Windows and new WhatsApp emojis for Android. Browse the list of WhatsApp emojis here.

💬 WhatsApp Emoji Meanings — Emojis for WhatsApp on iPhone, Android and Web (Updated: February 2024)

<p>Beginning rollout on 2024-02-02, WhatsApp&nbsp;2.23.2.72 debut support for a subset of 2023&#39;s <a href="/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a> recommendations.</p>

<p>Additionally, this update introduced gender-neutral designs for a series of people emojis that previously displayed a gendered appearance on the platform.&nbsp;</p>

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2.24.2.76

<p>Beginning rollout on 2023-01-11, WhatsApp 2.23.2.72&nbsp;debuted support for the 31 emojis recommended in September 2022&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>.</p>

<p>This update also changed the designs of the&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/nerd-face/">🤓&nbsp;Nerd Face</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/pleading-face/">🥺&nbsp;Pleading Face</a>, and the&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/face-holding-back-tears/">🥹&nbsp;Face Holding Back Tears</a>&nbsp;emojis.</p>

2.23.2.72

<p>Released 2022-04-19, this update for WhatsApp on Android devices introduced support for <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> emojis such as <a href="/melting-face/">🫠&nbsp;Melting Face</a>, as well as&nbsp;multiple skin tone versions of the&nbsp;<a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a>&nbsp;emoji.</p>

2.22.8.79

<p>Released 2021-11-25, this update introduced&nbsp;additional skin tone combinations&nbsp;for the<a href="/people-holding-hands/">🧑&zwj;🤝&zwj;🧑 People Holding Hands</a>&nbsp;emoji from late 2019&#39;s <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>, as well as many different &nbsp;<a href="/kiss/">💏 Kiss</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/couple-with-heart/">💑 Couple with Heart</a> skin tone combinations from late 2020&#39;s <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>.</p>

<p>However, this release did not update WhatsApp&#39;s native emoji keyboard to allow for access&nbsp;to these new emojis.</p>

2.21.23.23

<p>Released 2021-08-18,&nbsp;this update included partial support for <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>, with&nbsp;three&nbsp;new smiley emoji and two new heart emojis.</p>

<p>The update also introduced <a href="/woman-beard/">🧔&zwj;♀️&nbsp;Woman: Beard</a> and updated the design of&nbsp;<a href="/person-beard/">🧔 Person: Beard</a> to be more gender neutral. The update did not, however, provide support for&nbsp;<a href="/man-beard/">🧔&zwj;♂️ Man: Beard</a>&nbsp;or the new variations of&nbsp;<a href="/kiss/">💏&nbsp;Kiss</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/couple-with-heart/">💑&nbsp;Couple with Heart</a>&nbsp;recommended in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>.</p>

2.21.16.20

<p>Released 2021-06-08, this update included a single new emoji: the <a href="/refugee-nation-flag/">Refugee Nation flag</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whatsapps-new-refugee-nation-flag/">More about this new flag emoji.</a></p>

2.21.11.17

<p>Released early December 2020, this update included 115&nbsp;new emojis from <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>.</p>

2.20.206.24

<p>Released early September&nbsp;2020, this update&nbsp;included 138&nbsp;new emojis. While all of these new emojis were from&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>, this update&nbsp;did not include the 30&nbsp;people holding hands emoji variants also included within&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>.</p>

😀 Grinning Face on WhatsApp 2.16

😀 Grinning Face on WhatsApp 2.16

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