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Appearance historically differs greatly&nbsp;cross-platform. Use with caution.

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A yellow face smiling with <a href="/open-hands/">open hands</a>, as if giving a hug.&nbsp;May be used to offer thanks and support, show love and care, or express warm, positive feelings more generally.

Due to its hand gesture, often used to represent jazz hands, indicating such feelings as excitement, enthusiasm, or a sense of flourish or accomplishment.

Joins <a href="/thinking-face/">🤔&nbsp;Thinking Face</a>, <a href="/shushing-face/">🤫&nbsp;Shushing Face</a>, and <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭&nbsp;Face With Hand Over Mouth</a> as one of the few smileys featuring hands. For a more obvious hug, see&nbsp;<a href="/people-hugging/">🫂 People Hugging</a>&nbsp;(new in 2020).

Hugging 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 with simple, open eyes and a thin, closed smile. Conveys a wide range of positive, happy, and friendly sentiments. Its tone can&nbsp;also be patronizing, passive-aggressive, or ironic, as if saying This is fine when it&rsquo;s really not.

Slightly Smiling 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 yellow face with smiling eyes, closed smile, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(religious_iconography)">halo</a>, usually blue, overhead. Often represents angels, <a href="/folded-hands/">prayers</a>, and blessings. May also convey angelic behavior, e.g., doing good deeds. See also <a href="/baby-angel/">👼&nbsp;Baby Angel</a>.

Several platforms, including Apple, feature&nbsp;an&nbsp;expression similar to their <a href="/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😊&nbsp;Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes.</a>

Smiling Face with Halo

A yellow face with smiling eyes, a closed smile, rosy cheeks, and several <a href="/red-heart/">hearts</a> floating around its head. Expresses a range of happy, affectionate feelings, especially being in love. The placement of the hearts varies slightly by platform.

Apple&#39;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/smiling-face/">☺️ Smiling Face</a>&nbsp;emoji design.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Three Hearts

A yellow face with an open smile, sometimes showing teeth, and red, cartoon-styled hearts for eyes. Often conveys enthusiastic feelings of love, infatuation, and adoration, e.g., I love/am in love with this person or thing.

This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/smiling-cat-with-heart-eyes/">😻 Smiling Cat Face With Heart-Eyes</a>.

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Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes

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.

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Grinning Face with Star Eyes

A yellow face with simple, open eyes and puckered lips giving a kiss. Commonly conveys sentiments of love and affection.

Like <a href="/kissing-face-with-smiling-eyes/" title="😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes">😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes</a>, this emoji is sometimes taken to represent whistling, especially when paired with a <a href="/musical-note/">musical note</a>. May convey such feelings as surprise, admiration, contempt, or feigned innocence, as a person casually whistling after wrongdoing saying,&nbsp;Nothing to look at here.

Similar to <a href="/kissing-face-with-smiling-eyes/" title="😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes">😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes</a> and <a href="/kissing-face-with-closed-eyes/">😚&nbsp;Kissing Face With Closed Eyes</a> but with less intimate eyes.

Kissing Face

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.

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.

This smiley predates Unicode emoji support. In its Unicode name of White Smiling Face, white&nbsp;does not refer to skin tone or ethnicity.&nbsp;See the glossary for the&nbsp;term&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#white" title="📖 Glossary">white</a>&nbsp;in Unicode character names.

White Smiling Face

A yellow face with a hand covering its mouth. Displays most often with&nbsp;smiling eyes and/or blushing cheeks, suggesting coy laughter or embarrassment, as if cheekily saying&nbsp;Oops! 

Prior to the release of <a href="/apple/ios-15.4/">iOS 15.4</a> in March 2022, Apple&#39;s design&nbsp;<a href="/apple/ios-11.1/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">featured</a> simple, open eyes, suggesting someone gasping Oh my! in serious surprise, shock, concern, or apology. This same update assigned Apple&#39;s original 🤭 design to <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>&#39;s new&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-open-eyes-and-hand-over-mouth/">🫢 Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth</a> emoji.

May be used to similar effect as <a href="/speak-no-evil-monkey/">🙊 Speak-No-Evil Monkey.</a>&nbsp;See also <a href="/zipper-mouth-face/">🤐&nbsp;Zipper-Mouth Face</a>.&nbsp;Joins <a href="/hugging-face/">🤗&nbsp;Hugging Face</a>, <a href="/thinking-face/">🤔&nbsp;Thinking Face</a>, and <a href="/shushing-face/">🤫&nbsp;Shushing Face</a> as one of the few smileys featuring hands.

Facebook&#39;s design <a href="/facebook/4.0/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">previously featured</a> open eyes, though an earlier version had&nbsp;<a href="/facebook/2.1/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">smiling eyes</a>&nbsp;like those in the vendor&#39;s current design.

Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Hand Covering Mouth

A yellow face placing an index finger over pursed lips, as if issuing Shh!&nbsp;or Shush! for silence. Some platforms feature raised eyebrows. Apple&rsquo;s design suggests the face is tilting back slightly.&nbsp;

May convey silence, quiet, secrecy, and discreetness. May also create a sense of buzz and anticipation, e.g., an exclusive sneak peek or news scoop.

See also <a href="/zipper-mouth-face/">🤐&nbsp;Zipper-Mouth Face</a>. Joins <a href="/hugging-face/">🤗&nbsp;Hugging Face</a>, <a href="/thinking-face/">🤔&nbsp;Thinking Face</a>, and <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭&nbsp;Face With Hand Over Mouth</a> as one of the few smileys featuring hands.

Face with Finger Covering Closed Lips

A yellow face with furrowed eyebrows looking upwards with thumb and index finger resting on its chin. Intended to show a person pondering or deep in thought.&nbsp;Often used to question or scorn something or someone,&nbsp;as if saying Hmm, I don&#39;t know about that. Tone varies, including earnest, playful, puzzled, skeptical, and mocking.

May be paired with <a href="/thought-balloon/">💭 Thought Balloon</a> or <a href="/light-bulb/">💡 Light Bulb</a> to represent&nbsp;thinking, (having) ideas, and learning.

Joins <a href="/hugging-face/">🤗&nbsp;Hugging Face</a>, <a href="/shushing-face/">🤫&nbsp;Shushing Face</a>, and <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭&nbsp;Face With Hand Over Mouth</a> as one of the few smileys featuring a hand.

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Thinking Face

A yellow face with soft, closed eyes, raised eyebrows, and a slight smile. Facebook&rsquo;s design features a slightly open mouth, as if&nbsp;sighing.

Conveys various pleasant feelings, including&nbsp;contentment, calm, peace, and&nbsp;relief. May also convey feelings of happiness or good-natured humor more generally.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/relieved-face/">Google</a> and <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/relieved-face/">Microsoft</a> previously included sweat beads. Not to be confused with <a href="/pensive-face/">😔&nbsp;Pensive Face</a>, which has similarly shaped eyes but in a sadder expression.

Relieved Face

A yellow face, usually shown with closed eyes and raised eyebrows, with saliva drooling from one corner of its mouth. Often used to show desire for a person (sexy, attractive) or object (e.g., delicious food). May also represent someone is tired or sleeping.

Not to be confused with&nbsp;<a href="/face-savoring-food/" title="😋 Face Savouring Delicious Food">😋 Face Savoring Food</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="/sleepy-face/" title="😪 Sleepy Face">😪 Sleepy Face</a>.

Samsung&#39;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-8.5/drooling-face/">previously featured</a> a startled facial expression.

Drooling Face

A yellow face with scrunched, X-shaped eyes sneezing or blowing its nose into a white tissue, as if from a cold or allergies. Often depicted with a crumpled-looking mouth.

May also represent someone in an emotional state wiping away tears, as at a <a href="/wedding/">wedding</a>.

Sneezing Face

A friendly-looking, tentacled space creature with two eyes. Most major platforms style their design after aliens in classic arcade games like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders">Space Invaders</a>, rendering it purple and pixellated, as if in 8-bit graphics.

Samsung&rsquo;s design resembles an <a href="/octopus/">octopus</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/alien-monster/">previously featured</a> a big-brained <a href="/alien/">alien</a>, &agrave; la <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cage_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)">Star Trek</a>. Earlier designs from <a href="/google/android-7.0/alien-monster/">Google</a> and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/alien-monster/">Microsoft</a> depicted more cartoon-like alien monsters.

May be used of topics concerning extraterrestrial life,&nbsp;outer space, gaming, and computing, but also enjoys a range of idiosyncratic applications, such as&nbsp;conveying a&nbsp;sense of weirdness, wackiness, or excitement, given that the emoji looks like it is raising its arms shouting&nbsp;Yay! on many platforms.

Alien Monster

Two pink love hearts. One larger than the other. Can be used to display that &ldquo;love is in the air&rdquo;.

This emoji tends to spike in popularity on <a href="/valentines-day">Valentine&#39;s Day</a>.

On <a href="/snapchat/" title="👻 Snapchat Emoji Meanings">Snapchat</a>, this emoji next to a contact denotes that you have been #1 BFs with each other for two consecutive months.&nbsp;A bug in October 2019 has a <a href="https://trophylist.com/2019/10/07/snapchat-bug-shows-yellow-heart-💛-instead-of-pink-hearts-💕/">yellow heart emoji showing instead of&nbsp;💕 for some Snapchat users</a>.

Two Hearts

Two hands raised in the air, celebrating success or another joyous event.

<a href="/au-kddi/type-d-2/raising-hands/">Originally&nbsp;animated</a> to show hands being raised, as might be done along with the the exclamation&nbsp;Banzai!&nbsp;in Japan. Now more commonly only shows the hands in the air.

Person Raising Both Hands in Celebration

Two open hands, representing openness. Sometimes used as a <a title="🤗 Hugging Face" href="/hugging-face/">hug</a>, or as a display of jazz hands.

Open Hands Sign

Two people hugging, shown as faceless blue forms on most platforms. Details of each person are not distinct and thus no options are available to customize the gender or skin tone of either individual.

Not to be confused with <a href="/hugging-face/">🤗 Hugging Face</a>, which is less clearly a representation of hugging and sometimes used as jazz hands or to express excitement.

People Hugging

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of bear, looking straight ahead. Depicted as a brown bear with round ears and a tan muzzle.&nbsp;Resembles a <a href="/teddy-bear/">teddy bear</a>.

Often used with an affectionate tone. Does not have a full-bodied bear emoji counterpart.

May be used to refer to certain members of the <a href="/pride">LGBTQ</a> community, a la the slang term &quot;bear&quot;.

Available as an Apple <a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Samsung&rsquo;s bear was <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/bear/">previously</a> golden brown.

Bear Face

The heart-shaped twist of a hard or soft golden-brown pretzel, seasoned with grains of salt. A snack commonly associated with&nbsp;<a href="/flag-germany/">Germany</a>.

Pretzel

A place where people are taken to receive medical care. This hospital has a large red cross on the front, often used as a symbol for health care.

Hospital

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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.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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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.

An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.

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