Behold the grinning face, the classic Big Happy Energy of the emoji universe. It’s your go-to for wholesome joy, goofy excitement, or a cheerful “ta‑da!” after dropping good news. People use it to celebrate tiny wins, soften a brag, or say “I’m fine!” with the emotional equivalent of jazz hands.
Online, that grin can read a little extra—perfect for ironic positivity, polite deflection, or the “hehe whoops” vibe after a minor oops. In texts and memes it channels the old‑school :D, mixing sincere hype with a dash of awkward theater‑kid energy. It shows up under compliments, after dad jokes, and in those “not mad at all, no really 😀” sarcastic replies. Less flirty than 😉, less chaotic than 😹, but sunnier than the plain 🙂.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a bright yellow, front‑facing circle with glossy shading, round black eyes, and a broad, toothy smile showing neat white upper‑and‑lower teeth inside a dark mouth. No eyebrows, no tongue—just a clean, plastic‑toy grin that pops in chats and caption threads. The look screams upbeat, a little cheesy, and instantly recognizable at thumbnail size.
A smiling (grinning) face with round eyes and open mouth. Upper teeth are shown. This is the simplest form of emoji smiley face.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 7 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 | :D |
| "Short Code" Name | :grinning: |
| Keywords | Grin, Grinning, Smiling, Smile, Smiley |
| Unicode Category | Emoticons |
| Unicode Range | 1F600–1F64F |
| Unicode Subcategory | Faces |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 6 - 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) | 1f600 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F600 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128512 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0x80 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 98 80 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 230 200 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE00 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde00 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56832 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F600 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F600 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128512 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F600" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x98\x80" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE00" |
