U+1F642 "🙂" Slightly Smiling Face Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

🙂
Source: Noto Color Emoji Source: Browser Default

U+1F642 "🙂" Slightly Smiling Face is a typographic representation of a subtle, gentle smile, depicting a yellow face with a small, closed mouth and soft eyes that convey a quiet sense of contentment, politeness, or mild amusement. It is often used in digital communication to express a reserved or understated positive emotion, differing from a broad grin by suggesting a more subdued or nuanced tone, such as gratitude, sympathy, or gentle irony. This character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of Emoji 1.0, and it has become a staple in texting and social media for situations where a softer, less exuberant expression is appropriate.

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Emoji Sequences

U+1F642 U+200D U+2194 U+FE0F
🙂‍↔️
Head Shaking Horizontally
U+1F642 U+200D U+2195 U+FE0F
🙂‍↕️
Head Shaking Vertically

Emoji Properties

Emoji Sequence Type
Basic Emoji
Emoji Version
Emoji 1.0

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
🙂
HTML Hex Encoding
🙂
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83D 0xDE42
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001F642
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83d\ude42