grinning face 😀 Meaning, Copy & Platform Appearance
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To use the grinning face emoji (😀), simply click the button above. It will be automatically copied to your clipboard.
What does 😀 grinning face Mean?
Grinning face 😀 is the plainest smile in the set — a broad open grin with ordinary open eyes, no squint, no blush, no tears. It signals friendly and upbeat without any second layer, which is why it's the default for a simple greeting or acknowledgement: "görüşürüz o zaman 😀". Because the eyes stay wide rather than crinkling, some people read it as a touch stiff next to 😄.
- 💡General Use: grinning face
- 📱Social Media: Instagram, TikTok, X
Cultural Meaning & Social Media Tips
It's the codepoint keyboards love: 😀 is U+1F600, the first character of the Emoticons Unicode block, so it lands at or near the top of many emoji pickers and in default developer test strings — one reason it appears far more often in software screenshots than in real conversations. Among younger users the wide-eyed grin has picked up a slightly unsettling, forced quality, and it's occasionally used deliberately for that effect after a passive-aggressive line. For anything sincerely warm, 😊 and 😄 both land better.
How 😀 Looks on Different Platforms
Emoji designs vary slightly between systems. Here is how the grinning face emoji is rendered on major platforms like Apple, Google, and WhatsApp.
*Images come from open-licensed emoji sets (Twemoji CC BY 4.0, Noto Apache 2.0, OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0). Apple and WhatsApp sets are proprietary and cannot be hosted; the "Your Device" card shows your own OS emoji font — on iPhone/Mac that is the Apple design. Click any card to copy the emoji.
When to Use grinning face?
Social Media
Just posted a new photo! 😀
Messaging
Hey, check this out 😀
Reaction
Wow, that's amazing! 😀
Status
Feeling 😀 today
How to Type grinning face on Keyboard?
Windows 10/11 Shortcut
- Windows Key
- . (period)
- Type "grinning face"
- Select 😀
Mac (Macbook) Shortcut
- Control + Command + Space
- Search "grinning face"
- Select 😀
grinning face HTML & CSS Codes
| Property | Value / Code | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Name | grinning face | |
| Unicode Code | U+1F600 | |
| HTML Entity | 😀 | |
| HTML Hex | 😀 | |
| CSS Content | \01F600 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F600} | |
| Shortcode (Discord, Slack, GitHub) | :grinning: | |
| Emoji Version | Emoji 1.0 | |
| Year Added | 2015 | |
| Skin Tone Support | No |
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Graphics come from open-licensed sets: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0, Twitter/X), Noto Color Emoji (Apache 2.0, Google) and OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0). Free to use with attribution.
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