U+1F972 "🥲" Smiling Face with Tear Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🥲
U+1F972 "🥲" Smiling Face with Tear is a detailed yellow emoji that combines a wide, closed eye smile on the right side with a single blue tear falling from the left eye, creating a complex expression of bittersweet emotion. It is officially defined by the Unicode Consortium as representing a smiley face with a tear, and since its addition in 2019 with Unicode version 12.0, it has become widely used in digital communication to convey nuanced feelings such as being touched, moving, happily crying, or expressing gratitude mixed with sadness, as well as controlling emotions or laughing through pain.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F972 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Smiling Face with Tear |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| 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 0xA5 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F972 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd72 |