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😆 Grinning Squinting Face Emoji

A broad squinting grin for hearty laughter, playful excitement, delight, or comic embarrassment.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Grinning Squinting Face
Category
Smileys & Emotion
Subcategory
Face Smiling
Unicode
U+1F606
Emoji version
0.6
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The grinning squinting face emoji shows a wide smile with tightly closed, crossed-looking eyes. It communicates energetic laughter, delight, playful excitement, or the feeling of laughing through a mildly embarrassing moment. It is stronger and sillier than a basic grin but does not specifically show tears. Use it for jokes, friendly teasing, victories, and joyful responses. Repeating it can make the response feel even more excited. In serious or tense conversations, its exuberance may make concern or criticism seem dismissive.

Tone
FriendlyPositiveCheerful
Quick Meaning

A broad squinting grin for hearty laughter, playful excitement, delight, or comic embarrassment.

Use Cases

How People Use 😆

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

React to a genuinely funny joke

React to a genuinely funny joke.

Celebrate with playful excitement

Celebrate with playful excitement.

Laugh at a harmless personal mistake

Laugh at a harmless personal mistake.

Add energy to friendly teasing

Add energy to friendly teasing.

Real Messages

😆 Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 😆.

“That impression was far too accurate 😆”

“We actually won the final round 😆”

“I walked into the wrong meeting and waved at everyone 😆”

Lookup Data

Names, Keywords and Search Terms

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Official Name

Grinning Squinting Face

Subcategory: Face Smiling

Aliases & Common Names

  • grinning squinting face

Keywords & Search Terms

  • grinning
  • squinting
  • laughing
  • excited
  • playful
  • delighted
  • funny
  • joy
Developer Reference

😆 Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F606
Code points
U+1F606
UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0x86
UTF-16
\uD83D\uDE06
HTML decimal entity
😆
HTML hexadecimal entity
😆
JavaScript escape
\u{1F606}
CSS escape
\1F606
Python string
\U0001F606
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Microsoft Fluent

MIT License
Grinning Squinting Face emoji in Microsoft Fluent style

Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Grinning Squinting Face emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Grinning Squinting Face emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Grinning Squinting Face emoji in OpenMoji style

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A broad squinting grin for hearty laughter, playful excitement, delight, or comic embarrassment.