U+263A "☺" White Smiling Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☺
U+263A "☺" White Smiling Face is a classic typographic symbol that represents a simplified, stylized human face with a curved upward mouth and two dot-like eyes, conveying happiness, contentment, or friendliness. First included as part of the original Unicode standard in 1993, it predates the widespread use of modern emoji and is often displayed as a hollow or open shape, depending on the font. Historically derived from earlier computing character sets like IBM Code Page 437, this glyph remains a nostalgic and versatile representation of positive emotion in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+263A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White Smiling Face |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ☺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ☺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x98 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x263A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000263A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u263a |