Smiling Face

☺️ is an older, more reserved smiling face. It reads as calm contentment or sweetness, a softer alternative to the yellow grins.

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Tone

PositiveIt reads as cheerful and upbeat.DBEmoji editorial interpretation

Technical details

Source: Unicode Consortium

Unicode name: WHITE SMILING FACE
CLDR short name: smiling face
Codepoint: U+263A U+FE0F
Hex: 263A FE0F
Emoji version: 0.6
Unicode version: 6.0
First released: 2010
Unicode group: Smileys & Emotion
Unicode subgroup: face-affection
Status: Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)

Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built

GitHub shortcode

From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.

:relaxed:

Keywords

Source: Unicode CLDR

face · happy · outlined · relaxed · smile · smiling

How it looks

Smiling Face — Fluent Color — Fluent Color

Smiling Face — Fluent Flat — Fluent Flat

Your device

Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)

Download as image

Renders ☺️ with your system emoji font into PNG, WebP, or SVG. Pick a pixel size, then download.

Note: PNG and WebP use the emoji font installed on your device (Apple Color Emoji on macOS/iOS, Segoe UI Emoji on Windows, Noto Color Emoji on Android/Linux), so the look matches your platform. SVG embeds the character as text — rendering depends on the viewer.

Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork

Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of ☺️. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.

Questions people ask

What does the ☺️ smiling face emoji mean?: ☺️ is an older, more reserved smiling face. It reads as calm contentment or sweetness, a softer alternative to the yellow grins.
What is the Unicode codepoint for ☺️?: U+263A U+FE0F: the character U+263A (WHITE SMILING FACE) followed by U+FE0F, variation selector-16, which asks for the colour emoji form. Without U+FE0F many systems draw U+263A as a plain text symbol.
When was the ☺️ smiling face emoji released?: It was added in Emoji 0.6, published in 2010, alongside Unicode 6.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
How do I type ☺️ on my phone or computer?: On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “smiling face”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy ☺️ from this page with one click.
What is the shortcode for ☺️?: On GitHub, type :relaxed: and it turns into ☺️ — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.