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Smileys & EmotionFace Smiling
😀 Grinning Face Emoji
A broad, open smile commonly used for happiness, friendly reactions, good news, and lighthearted moments.
QUICK FACTS
- Official name
- Grinning Face
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Subcategory
- Face Smiling
- Unicode
- U+1F600
- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Unicode version
- 6.1
What Does Mean?
The 😀 Grinning Face emoji shows a yellow face with open eyes and a wide smile. It is commonly used to express happiness, friendliness, excitement, or a positive reaction. It works well in greetings, casual conversations, congratulations, and upbeat replies. Compared with some other smiling-face emojis, 😀 is fairly general and neutral, so it can communicate simple positivity without sounding overly emotional. It can still feel too cheerful beside serious or negative news, so the surrounding words matter when the topic is sensitive.
Tone
FriendlyPositiveCheerful
Context note
😀 is usually positive, but beside serious or negative news it may feel too cheerful or insensitive.
Quick Meaning
A broad, open smile commonly used for happiness, friendly reactions, good news, and lighthearted moments.
Use Cases
How People Use 😀
Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.
Positive reaction
Respond quickly to good news or a pleasant update.
Light humor
Add a friendly tone to a playful comment.
Celebration
Use it with birthdays, achievements, or announcements.
Casual enthusiasm
Show positivity without the stronger excitement of some other smile emojis.
Real Messages
😀 Emoji Examples
Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 😀.
“Great news — we finally finished it! 😀”
“Hope you have a good day 😀”
“Welcome to the team! 😀”
“That actually went much better than expected 😀”
“Thanks for helping us so quickly 😀”
Comparisons
Similar Emojis
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Lookup Data
Names, Keywords and Search Terms
Search terms, common aliases, and lookup keywords.
Official Name
Grinning Face
Subcategory: Face SmilingAliases & Common Names
- grinning face
- happy face
- smiley
Keywords & Search Terms
- happy face
- smiley
- grin
- happy
- cheerful
- friendly
- joy
- positive
- good news
- smile
Developer Reference
😀 Emoji Codes
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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F600Code points
U+1F600UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0x80UTF-16
\uD83D\uDE00HTML decimal entity
😀HTML hexadecimal entity
😀JavaScript escape
\u{1F600}CSS escape
\1F600 Python string
\U0001F600Discovery
Related Smileys & Emotion Emojis
Explore other emojis frequently used alongside 😀.
Another broad grin, but the bigger eyes make it feel more energetic.
A warmer, more visibly cheerful version of a grin.
A toothier smile for stronger delight or proud excitement.
A softer smile when friendliness should feel gentler.
A stronger grin for laughter, excitement, or playful embarrassment.
Use this when the message is funny enough to mean laughter.
A smaller smile that can feel polite, mild, or restrained.
A cat-face variant for the same cheerful mood in a playful style.
Emoji Styles
See 😀 in Different Styles
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Microsoft Fluent
MIT License
Google Noto
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
Why do emoji designs look different?
Unicode defines the emoji character or sequence, while each artwork set decides how it is drawn. That is why the same emoji can look different between devices, apps, and design systems.
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FAQ
Questions About 😀
Frequently asked questions about meaning, copying, PNG export, and Unicode data.
A broad, open smile commonly used for happiness, friendly reactions, good news, and lighthearted moments.
Yes. When licensed artwork is available, choose a style and download 1× (128×128), 2× (256×256), 4× (512×512), or 8× (1024×1024) PNG artwork. EmojiMint shows the selected provider, background, and exact pixel dimensions before download.
😀 is commonly used as a happy or positive emoji, especially when the surrounding words support that friendly tone.
The Unicode code point for 😀 is U+1F600.
😀 is usually the more general choice. 😃 Grinning Face With Big Eyes is different because more visibly enthusiastic and energetic because of the wide eyes.
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