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<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

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<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 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.</p>

<p>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 <i>Oh well! </i>of<i> </i><a href="/person-shrugging/">🤷<i>&nbsp;</i>Person Shrugging</a> or the <i>shruggie</i> emoticon, &macr;\_(ツ)_/&macr;.</p>

<p>Microsoft&#39;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/upside-down-face/">previously featured</a> a full-toothed grin.</p>

Upside-Down Face

<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 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 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.</p>

<p>Apple&#39;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/smiling-face/">☺️ Smiling Face</a>&nbsp;emoji design.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Three Hearts

<p>A yellow face with its right hand saluting. Used as a sign of respect.</p>

<p>The expression of the face of this emoji can vary across platforms, with some designs featuring a <a href="/neutral-face">neutral</a> face while others are shown smiling to various degrees.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Apple and Huewai&#39;s designs notably only display half a face, likely to make the saluting hand more prominent when this emoji is viewed in smaller sizes.</p>

<div id="professor_prebid-root">This emoji went viral across Twitter in late 2022 following the&nbsp;news that the platform would be dramatically reducing its staff numbers as part of a company-wide restructuring following its acquisition by Elon Musk. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/10-years-of-viral-emoji-moments/">Learn more here.</a></div>

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Saluting Face

<p>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.</p>

<p>Conveys various pleasant feelings, including&nbsp;contentment, calm, peace, and&nbsp;relief. May also convey feelings of happiness or good-natured humor more generally.</p>

<p><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.</p>

Relieved Face

<p>A yellow face with tears welling up at the bottom of its two large eyes.</p>

<p>May be used to express a range of emotions including sadness, anger, embarrassment, admiration, and gratitude.&nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="/smiling-face-with-tear/">🥲 Smiling Face with Tear</a> and <a href="/pleading-face/">🥺 Pleading Face</a> can be used in some similar&nbsp;contexts.</p>

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Face Holding Back Tears

<p>A heart emoji with an arrow through the center, like the arrow that cupid shoots for love.</p>

<p>This emoji tends to spike in popularity on <a href="/valentines-day">Valentine&#39;s Day</a>.</p>

Heart with Arrow

<p>Hearts revolving around one or more other hearts. This emoji was originally animated on a number of Japanese devices.</p>

<p>Apple&rsquo;s artwork for this emoji shows&nbsp;two hearts switching places, with a circular line simulating&nbsp;the&nbsp;action this would make.&nbsp;Google&rsquo;s artwork previously displayed <a href="/google/android-5.0/revolving-hearts/">five hearts in a circle-like shape</a>.</p>

Revolving Hearts

<p>Two pink love hearts. One larger than the other. Can be used to display that &ldquo;love is in the air&rdquo;.</p>

<p>This emoji tends to spike in popularity on <a href="/valentines-day">Valentine&#39;s Day</a>.</p>

<p>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;<em>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>.</em></p>

Two Hearts

<p>A heart shown with a bandage across one side; the opposite of a <a href="/broken-heart/">broken heart</a>. May be used to indicate&nbsp;the process of healing,&nbsp;recovery, or to express sympathy for someone going through a difficult time.</p>

Mending Heart

<p>A hand waving most commonly used to say &ldquo;hello&rdquo; or &ldquo;goodbye&rdquo;.</p>

<p>This emoji can be used to convey a sense of <a href="https://youtu.be/ukJmB4rLNKA?t=2m">not being friends any more</a>&nbsp;when used on WeChat in China.</p>

Waving Hand Sign

<p>Two hands forming a heart shape. Used to express love and support.</p>

<p>This emoji currently showns the heart being made through two hands being curved into a C-shape with their thumbs touching. This is stereotypically referred to as the &quot;Millennial Hand Heart&quot;.</p>

Heart Hands

<p>A trophy given as an recognition of achievement, usually in sports. The trophy emoji is a gold cup, with a engraving on the bottom detailing the award.</p>

<p>In <a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a>, the trophy provides access to the Trophy Case for <a href="http://snapchatemojis.com/trophies/">unlocking emoji achievements</a>.</p>

Trophy

<p>A gold medal, given to the person or team who comes first in a competitive sporting event such as a race.</p>

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First Place Medal

<p>A silver medal, given to the person or team who comes second in a competitive sporting event such as a race.</p>

Second Place Medal

<p>A bronze medal, given to the person or team who comes third in a competitive sporting event such as a race.</p>

Third Place Medal

<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>A yellow face with a frown and closed, downcast eyes, as if aching with sorrow or pain. May convey a variety of unhappy emotions, including disappointment, grief, stress, regret, and remorse.</p>

<p>Similar to <a href="/pensive-face/">😔&nbsp;Pensive Face</a>, but with a sadder, more hurt expression. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/disappointed-face/">previously featured</a> an expression closer to <a href="/confused-face/">😕&nbsp;Confused Face</a>.</p>

Disappointed Face

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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>Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.</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>3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.</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, Roblox, 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>A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.</p>

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<p>Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message 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>Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.</p>

<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>A licensable emoji design set.</p>

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<p>Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.</p>

<p>Unicode 13.0 is the version of the <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode Standard</a>&nbsp;released on&nbsp;March 10, 2020. 55 new emoji&nbsp;code points were added in this release,&nbsp;with all 117 new emojis for 2020 (including sequences for gender and skin tone)&nbsp;listed under <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>.</p>

<p>Unicode 13.0 introduced a total of 5,930&nbsp;new characters, including the 55 new emoji code points listed below. This brought the total number of characters encoded within Unicode to&nbsp;143,859.</p>

<p>More about <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-13-0/">what&#39;s new in Unicode 13.0</a>.</p>

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	<li><a href="http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/">🔣 Unicode 13.0.0 Specification</a></li>
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🥲 Smiling Face with Tear on WhatsApp 2.23.2.72

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