smiling face with tear 🥲 Meaning & Copy
Copy & Paste smiling face with tear
Copy the 🥲 (smiling face with tear) symbol instantly by tapping the button. Perfect for social media posts and messages.
What does 🥲 smiling face with tear Mean?
🥲 is smiling while a tear runs down — the emoji for holding it together. It covers bittersweet moments ("last day at the office 🥲"), gratitude that hurts a little, and the very common self-aware "everything is fine" when it isn't: "third rejection this month, all good 🥲". It's not 😢 (plain sadness) and not 🥹 (welling up with emotion); the point is the smile staying on top.
- 💡General Use: smiling face with tear
- 📱Social Media: Instagram, TikTok, X
Cultural Meaning & Social Media Tips
It shipped in Unicode 13.0 in September 2020, landing mid-pandemic, and was adopted faster than almost any recent emoji precisely because "coping, but barely" was the mood of the year. In East Asian messaging apps it also works as a polite hedge, softening a complaint so the other person doesn't have to respond to it. Avoid it in a message where you actually want help — its whole grammar tells the reader you've already accepted the situation.
How 🥲 Looks on Different Platforms
Emoji designs vary slightly between systems. Here is how the smiling face with tear 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 smiling face with tear?
Social Media
Just posted a new photo! 🥲
Messaging
Hey, check this out 🥲
Reaction
Wow, that's amazing! 🥲
Status
Feeling 🥲 today
How to Type smiling face with tear on Keyboard?
Windows 10/11 Shortcut
- Windows Key
- . (period)
- Type "smiling face with tear"
- Select 🥲
Mac (Macbook) Shortcut
- Control + Command + Space
- Search "smiling face with tear"
- Select 🥲
smiling face with tear HTML & CSS Codes
| Property | Value / Code | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Name | smiling face with tear | |
| Unicode Code | U+1F972 | |
| HTML Entity | 🥲 | |
| HTML Hex | 🥲 | |
| CSS Content | \01F972 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F972} | |
| Emoji Version | Emoji 13.0 | |
| Year Added | 2020 | |
| 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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