Smiling face

Meaning and uses

The classic smiling face. It is older than emoji and displays as a simple outline on many devices, though some draw it in colour.

Unicode details

☺ is the Unicode character named WHITE SMILING FACE, code point U+263A, in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It can also appear as an emoji, listed under the name “smiling face”. Plain text is its default, but some apps draw it in colour anyway. Adding the invisible variation selector U+FE0F after it asks for the emoji style, and U+FE0E asks for plain text.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ☺

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “smiling face”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “smiling face”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 263a, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ☺. In a CSS content property, use "\263A".