The grinning squinting face is pure XD energy—like you just heard the punchline and your soul did a cartwheel. It’s the big, breathy laugh without the tears, perfect for “I’m cackling” moments, chaotic memes, and playful roasts that don’t need the cry-laugh drama. Think LMFAO but cleaner: great for TikTok captions, Discord banter, or replying when your friend absolutely cooks you and you pretend it didn’t hurt. It also leans ironic—drop it after a painfully awkward take to say “lol that’s wild” without committing to sympathy.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a bright yellow face with eyes squeezed into sharp chevrons, a huge open mouth, and a full bar of upper teeth glowing white over a deep-red mouth—no tears, just max-volume grin. The expression looks halfway between a wheeze and a squeal, instantly recognizable as the classic “can’t breathe, still laughing” vibe. It carries retro internet flavor too, echoing the old-school XD from forum days and gaming chats. Use it to soften sarcasm, turbocharge a giggle, or signal that the chaos is funny—in a “this is unhinged but I’m here for it” kind of way.
A smiling face with tightly-closed (boomerang) eyes and open mouth. Upper teeth are shown. Very similar to the Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Smiling Eyes, but with less bubbly eyes.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 22 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture |  |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :laughing: |
| Keywords | Smiling, Laughing, Laugh |
| Previous Names: | Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Tightly-Closed Eyes Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Closed Eyes |
| Unicode Category | Emoticons |
| Unicode Range | 1F600–1F64F |
| Unicode Subcategory | Faces |
| Unicode Category | Faces and Smiley's |
| Unicode Subcategory | Faces |
| Names & Annotations | SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH AND TIGHTLY-CLOSED EYES Old name: HAPPY FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH AND CLOSED EYES Temporary Notes: Happy face 3 for DoCoMo |
| Symbol Information | U+1F606 proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-332 |
| DoCoMo | #Exp.31 'Happy face' うれしい顔 「ureshii顔」 U+E72A SJIS-F9CF JIS-7E35 |
| KDDI | #446 てれてれ 「teretere」 U+EAC5 SJIS-F399 JIS-7979 |
| Softbank | #10 #old357 表情(ほっ) 「表情(hotsu)」 U+E40A SJIS-FB4A |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 😆 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 😆 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 😆 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 😆 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f606 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F606 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128518 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0x86 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 98 86 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 230 206 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE06 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde06 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56838 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F606 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F606 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128518 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F606" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x98\x86" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE06" |
| Emoji Encoding | DoCoMo | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾌲 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾌲 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e72a | eac5 | fe332 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E72A | U+EAC5 | U+FE332 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 59178 | 60101 | 1041202 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x9C 0xAA | 0xEE 0xAB 0x85 | 0xF3 0xBE 0x8C 0xB2 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 9C AA | EE AB 85 | F3 BE 8C B2 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 234 252 | 356 253 205 | 363 276 214 262 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE72A | 0xEAC5 | 0xDBB8 0xDF32 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e72a | eac5 | dbb8df32 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 59178 | 60101 | 56248 57138 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E72A | 0x0000EAC5 | 0x000FE332 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E72A | EAC5 | 0FE332 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 59178 | 60101 | 1041202 |
| Python Src | u"\uE72A" | u"\uEAC5" | u"\U000FE332" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x9c\xaa" | "\xee\xab\x85" | "\xf3\xbe\x8c\xb2" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE72A" | "\uEAC5" | "\uDBB8\uDF32" |
