U+1F606 "😆" Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Tightly-Closed Eyes Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

😆

U+1F606 "😆" Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Tightly-Closed Eyes is a popular emoji often used to convey hearty laughter, extreme amusement, or uncontrollable joy, typically in response to a joke, a funny situation, or a hilarious meme. Its distinctive design features a wide open mouth for loud laughter and eyes squeezed shut as if from intense emotional reaction, distinguishing it from the lighter "😂" Face with Tears of Joy. This character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 under Unicode 6.0 and is part of the Emoji 1.0 set, where it is officially categorized as an emoji modifier base. Visually, it creates a sense of abandon and unrestrained glee, making it a staple on social media platforms and in text conversations for moments of overwhelming mirth.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F606
Version Added 6.0
Name Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Tightly-Closed Eyes
Block Emoticons
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 😆
HTML Hex Encoding 😆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDE06
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F606
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\ude06

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other
Emoji Yes
Emoji Presentation Yes
Extended Pictographic Yes