Smileys & Emotion · Smiling
🙂 Slightly Smiling Face
Also searched as: slight smile.
- Emoji
- 🙂
- Unicode
- U+1F642
- Shortcode
- :slightly_smiling_face:
- HTML code
- 🙂
- Approved in
- Emoji 1.0 (2015)
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
What does the 🙂 emoji mean?
A slight, calm smile. It can be polite, but in many chats it reads as passive-aggressive or forced, so context matters.
Keywords: face, happy, slightly, smile, smiling.
Featured in: Smiley face emojis.
How 🙂 looks on each platform
Every company draws its own version of the same emoji.
Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp designs are copyrighted by each company, so we don't publish them as images. Open this page on an iPhone and the “Your device” box shows Apple's version; on a Samsung Galaxy, Samsung's.
How to type 🙂 on your keyboard
| iPhone | Open the keyboard, tap the emoji button 😀 and type “slightly smiling face” in “Search Emoji”. |
|---|---|
| Android | On Gboard or the Samsung keyboard, tap the emoji icon and search “slightly smiling face”. |
| Windows | Press Windows + . (period) and type “slightly smiling face”. |
| Mac | Press Control + Command + Space and search “slightly smiling face”. |
| Discord, Slack, GitHub | Type :slightly_smiling_face: |
🙂 emoji codes
| Official Unicode name | slightly smiling face |
|---|---|
| Code points | U+1F642 |
| HTML decimal | 🙂 |
| HTML hex | 🙂 |
| CSS | \1F642 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F642} |
| Shortcode | :slightly_smiling_face: |
| Text emoticon | :) |
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Frequently asked questions
What does the 🙂 emoji mean?
A slight, calm smile. It can be polite, but in many chats it reads as passive-aggressive or forced, so context matters.
How do I copy and paste the slightly smiling face emoji?
Tap Copy emoji on this page and paste it anywhere: WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, an email or a document. You can also find it on your phone's emoji keyboard by searching “slightly smiling face”.
When was the 🙂 emoji released?
It was approved in Emoji 1.0, in 2015. Today it works on practically every phone and computer.