slightly smiling face Emoji
🙂 slightly smiling face: copy and paste this emoji, see its Unicode codepoint and find related emoji in the Smileys & Emotion category.
- Unicode codepoint
- U+1F642
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Introduced in
- Emoji version 1 (2015)
- 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
The most ambiguous face in the set. Taken literally it is a polite, mild smile. In practice it is very often passive-aggressive, a mask over annoyance, or dead-eyed "I am fine". Younger users almost never mean it sincerely.
How people use it
- Polite acknowledgement (sincere, usually from older users)
- Forced calm ("the build broke again 🙂")
- Subtle sarcasm or suppressed irritation
Examples
- no it's fine 🙂
- they moved the deadline to tomorrow 🙂
- sounds good 🙂
Good to know
If you want to sound warm, use 😊 instead. 🙂 can read as cold or sarcastic even when you did not mean it to.
Shortcodes
Type one of these (including the colons) to insert the emoji on that platform.
- GitHub
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:slightly_smiling_face: - Slack
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:slightly_smiling_face:
In other languages
- Nederlands
- enigszins lachend gezicht
- Deutsch
- leicht lächelndes Gesicht
- Français
- visage avec un léger sourire
- Español
- cara sonriendo ligeramente