→ 263A ☺ white smiling face
The slightly smiling face is the internet’s polite head-nod—pleasant, restrained, and just vague enough to keep everyone guessing. It’s great for gentle affirmations, light gratitude, or softening a blunt message so it lands as a whisper instead of a thud. But in meme culture it’s famously dual-purpose: the passive-aggressive “Sure 🙂,” the ominous “We need to talk 🙂,” and the HR-approved smile that says, per my last email, please read. It can even be a PG-rated flirt—warmer than a period, cooler than a wink—and the reigning champion of Midwestern Nice and British Polite energy.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a front-facing yellow circle with a soft gradient, calm dot eyes, and a thin closed mouth that arcs upward just a little—no teeth, no blush, no eyebrows, no drama. That minimalist face reads serene if you’re friendly, deadpan if you’re salty, and “smiling through it” if you’re posting the this-is-fine life update. People use it to say I’m okay, I guess, to cushion constructive feedback, or to drop ironic reassurance in a thread that’s clearly on fire. It’s the text equivalent of a small, practiced smile you wear to customer service, awkward reunions, and group chats with 36 unread takes—pleasant, strategic, and dangerously easy to misread.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 44 of 2393 |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :slight_smile: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Emoticons |
| Unicode Range | 1F600–1F64F |
| Unicode Subcategory | Faces |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - 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) | 1f642 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F642 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128578 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x82 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 82 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 202 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE42 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde42 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56898 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F642 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F642 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128578 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F642" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x82" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE42" |
