face with tears of joy Emoji
😂 face with tears of joy: copy and paste this emoji, see its Unicode codepoint and find related emoji in the Smileys & Emotion category.
- Unicode codepoint
- U+1F602
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Introduced in
- Emoji version 0.6 (2010)
- Skin tones
- Not applicable
- Gender forms
- Not applicable
Also known as
How it looks on your device
The glyph above is rendered by your own operating system or browser, so it may look slightly different on Windows, Android or iOS - that's normal, each platform ships its own emoji artwork for the same underlying character.
What it means
Laughing so hard you're crying. For years the single most-used emoji on the planet, which is exactly why younger users now read it as slightly dated - they reach for 💀 or 😭 instead. Among everyone else it's still the default "that's funny".
How people use it
- Reacting to a joke, a meme or an embarrassing story
- Softening a teasing remark so it reads as friendly
- Stacked two or three deep (😂😂😂) to signal genuine, not polite, laughter
Examples
- he sent that to the whole company 😂
- I cannot with you 😂😂😂
- that's literally me every Monday 😂
Often combined with
- 😂💀
- dying laughing
- 😂👏
- laughing and applauding a good one
Good to know
Gen Z and younger millennials increasingly use 💀 (skull) and 😭 (loudly crying) for the same thing, and may read 😂 as a "mom emoji". Safe in every other context.
Shortcodes
Type one of these (including the colons) to insert the emoji on that platform.
- GitHub
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:joy: - Slack
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In other languages
- Nederlands
- gezicht met tranen van vreugde
- Deutsch
- Gesicht mit Freudentränen
- Français
- visage riant aux larmes
- Español
- cara llorando de risa