Smiling Face with Halo Emoji
An angel face: an innocent smile wearing a halo, claiming good behaviour that is usually in doubt.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Smiling Face with Halo emoji mean?
An angel face: an innocent smile wearing a halo, claiming good behaviour that is usually in doubt.
Almost never sincere. The halo is a claim of innocence, and claiming innocence is what people do when they are about to admit something.
How to use 😇 naturally
Playful denials, mock innocence and admitting to something while pretending not to.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 😇
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Smiling Face with Halo was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A halo floating above a gentle smile, borrowed unchanged from religious painting. It is used almost entirely for innocence nobody believes in.
- Today
How its use evolved
Playful denials, mock innocence and admitting to something while pretending not to.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 😇 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
I did nothing wrong 😇
Ate one slice. Maybe three 😇
Left the last biscuit for you 😇
When to use it
Using 😇 clearly
Playful denials, mock innocence and admitting to something while pretending not to. It lands as smiling face with halo or 😇 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the smiling face with halo emoji
What does 😇 mean in a text message?
An angel face: an innocent smile wearing a halo, claiming good behaviour that is usually in doubt. Almost never sincere. The halo is a claim of innocence, and claiming innocence is what people do when they are about to admit something.
Is 😇 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are smiling face with halo, 😇 meaning, angel emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😇 look different on another device?
U+1F607 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the smiling face with halo emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 😇 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the smiling face with halo emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 😇 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
😇 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F607 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 😇 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 😇 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F607 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F607} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%87 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F607
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- smiling face with halo😇 meaningangel emoji
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