Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes Emoji
A soft, shy smile that reads as sincere and gentle.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes emoji mean?
A soft, shy smile that reads as sincere and gentle.
Warm, gentle and sincere. The smiling eyes make it softer than 😀 and especially suitable for gratitude, modest happiness and kind replies.
How to use 😊 naturally
Thank-yous, compliments and polite messages.
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 😊
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Closed, upward-curving eyes drawn properly instead of as the ^ ^ of a text emoticon. The flushed cheeks most platforms add are what make it seem shy.
- Today
How its use evolved
Thank-yous, compliments and polite messages.
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.
Thank you for checking in 😊
That was such a thoughtful gift 😊
I’m glad everything worked out 😊
When to use it
Using 😊 clearly
Thank-yous, compliments and polite messages. It lands as blush or shy 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 smiling eyes emoji
What does 😊 mean in a text message?
A soft, shy smile that reads as sincere and gentle. Warm, gentle and sincere. The smiling eyes make it softer than 😀 and especially suitable for gratitude, modest happiness and kind replies.
Is 😊 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are blush, shy, kind, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😊 look different on another device?
U+1F60A 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 smiling eyes 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 smiling eyes emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 😊 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. 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.
Easily confused
😊 compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes or Slightly Smiling Face?
🙂 can carry an edge. 😊 rarely does — the crescent eyes make it hard to read as anything but sincere.
Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes or Grinning Face?
😀 is louder and more energetic. 😊 is quieter and works better for gratitude than for excitement.
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+1F60A | 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 | \1F60A | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F60A} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%8A | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F60A
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- blushshykindwarm
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