White Smiling Face
U+263A☺Emoji or pictograph · decimal ☺
Smiley Symbols Copy & Paste
Browse 189 smiley symbols built for tone and personality. Mostly drawn from the Emoticons block. 53 render as text and 136 as emoji.
Copy smiley symbols
189 characters and sequences. Choose an entry and it copies straight away.
Nothing here matches that.
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Smiley Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
12 of the 189 entries, shown with their full detail. Read the name before the shape. Each row also carries the hexadecimal and decimal HTML reference for the exact sequence.
Hangul Syllable Us
U+C6C3웃Letter · decimal 웃
Yi Syllable Vy
U+A0FCꃼLetter · decimal ꃼ
Cyrillic Capital Letter Barred O With Diaeresis
U+04EAӪLetter · decimal Ӫ
Kissing Face With Closed Eyes
U+1F61A😚Emoji or pictograph · decimal 😚
Anxious Face With Sweat
U+1F630😰Emoji or pictograph · decimal 😰
Worried Face
U+1F61F😟Emoji or pictograph · decimal 😟
Frowning Face
U+2639 U+FE0F☹ ️Emoji sequence · decimal ☹ ️
Robot
U+1F916🤖Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🤖
Love Letter
U+1F48C💌Emoji or pictograph · decimal 💌
Goblin
U+1F47A👺Emoji or pictograph · decimal 👺
Disguised Face
U+1F978🥸Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🥸
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Smiley Symbols: types, meanings and practical differences
Text smileys range from single Unicode faces to multi-character emoticons and kaomoji.
Use these for tone. They suit chat, captions and playful text art. Stored on this page are 189 entries, split 175 single characters to 14 sequences.
You will meet White Smiling Face, Hangul Syllable Us, Yi Syllable Vy, Cyrillic Capital Letter Barred O With Diaeresis among these. Measured over the full set, the leading name patterns are Smiling Face With (12), Variation Selector-16 (11), Apl Functional Symbol (6). Single-character values span U+00DC to U+1F9E1.
Browse smiley symbols by type
Emoji or pictograph
126 entries
Symbol
17 entries
Letter
32 entries
Text sequence
4 entries
Emoji sequence
10 entries
Counted from the stored set
The range these smiley symbols occupy
The span runs U+00DC to U+1F9E1. By Unicode general category that is symbol 143, letter 32.
How the official names cluster
Smiling Face With (12), Variation Selector-16 (11), Apl Functional Symbol (6) lead the name frequencies — measured, not assumed.
Joiners, selectors and length
Of the sequences, 0 rely on a zero-width joiner and 10 on a variation selector; 9 code points is the longest single entry.
How to choose the right form
Watch out for White Smiling Face next to Hangul Syllable Us. They are different characters: U+263A and U+C6C3. Emoji or pictograph is the safe default at 126 entries.
Only reach for text sequence when the narrower sense is the point. Colour or no colour is the first choice: 136 emoji, 53 plain. Always check it in the place it will appear.
The grouping here follows practical use, not Unicode's formal categories.
126Emoji or pictograph
Drawn by the operating system, not your font. 67% here.
32Letter
Characters that are letters in some script. 17% here.
17Symbol
Monochrome characters you can style like text. 9% here.
10Emoji sequence
Built from parts that must travel together. 5% here.
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Smiley Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
Pick from 189 smiley symbols on this page. The largest set is emoji or pictograph, with 126. Their home in Unicode is the Emoticons block. 136 of them are emoji and come out in colour. The other 53 take the colour of the text near them.
Sorted into 5 kinds
Emoji or pictograph is the biggest at 126. The rest split between symbol, letter and text sequence.
Encoding, and why coverage varies
They come from Emoticons (72), Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs (33) and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (20). Across U+00DC to U+1F9E1, support gets patchy at the newer end.
Easy to confuse
Compare White Smiling Face with Hangul Syllable Us. Same shape, different code point.
14 entries are sequences
Half-copying breaks 14 of these. Take the whole value.
Vocabulary for this topic
Useful terms when searching or describing smiley symbols.
- Emoji or pictograph
- Symbol
- Letter
- Text sequence
- Emoji sequence
- Smiley
- Face
- Happy
- Emoticon
- Kaomoji
- Smiling
- Hangul
A quick choice checklist
- Match the meaning. Start with emoji or pictograph when that group fits your message.
- Read the name. Compare White Smiling Face with Hangul Syllable Us before you pick by shape.
- Test the result. Paste the full value into the app, document, or profile where it will appear.
Smileys range from single glyphs to punctuation faces
A text smiley can inherit surrounding typography, while an emoticon uses several characters and an emoji face uses platform artwork. Their tone and copy behavior differ.
| Style | Examples | Communication effect |
|---|---|---|
| Classic text face | ☺ ☻ | Compact and font-colored; formal names distinguish outline and filled forms. |
| Sideways emoticon | :-) :D | Depends on punctuation order and may be altered by auto-replacement. |
| Kaomoji | (＾▽＾) ツ | Reads upright but can contain letters from real writing systems. |
| Color emoji | 😀 🙂 | Expressive platform artwork may occupy more line height than text. |
Practical note: Choose a face whose tone fits the words and audience. Do not use a smiley as the only response to serious, safety-related or emotionally ambiguous information.
Keep exploring this topic
Compare these choices with emotion symbols and text animal symbols. For a deeper explanation, read Cool Symbols for Bios, Usernames and Captions. A faster route to the same point: can i use cool symbols on social media?.
Tip: A symbol should decorate a label, not replace it — plain words keep the meaning available to search and to assistive technology.
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How to use smiley symbols
Selecting an entry places its exact code points on your clipboard. Paste with Ctrl V, ⌘ V, or the Paste command on mobile.
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Chat reactions and friendly replies
Reach for White Smiling Face, and never let it replace a word that matters.
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Bios, captions and display names
When handling bios, captions and display names, the 126 emoji or pictograph entries are the obvious pool, and let visual weight settle the final choice.
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Text art that remains selectable
When creating text art that remains selectable, paste the complete entry — several of these are multi-code-point sequences that break if truncated.
Copy-ready smiley symbols examples for chat reactions and friendly replies
Chat reactions and friendly replies
☺ Smiley referenceBios, captions and display names
☺ ☻ ツText art that remains selectable
ツ smiley ☺05
How to type these smiley symbols directly
If you would rather type than paste, the codes below are what you need — the decimal value for Windows, the hexadecimal for Word and macOS.
| Character | Name | Windows | Hex | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ☺ | White Smiling Face | Alt 9786 | 263A | ☺ |
| 웃 | Hangul Syllable Us | Alt 50883 | C6C3 | 웃 |
| ꃼ | Yi Syllable Vy | Alt 41212 | A0FC | ꃼ |
| Ӫ | Cyrillic Capital Letter Barred O With Diaeresis | Alt 1258 | 04EA | Ӫ |
| 😚 | Kissing Face With Closed Eyes | Not available | 1F61A | 😚 |
| 😰 | Anxious Face With Sweat | Not available | 1F630 | 😰 |
Two limits apply to alt codes: a physical keypad, and a ceiling at U+FFFF. 119 entries here sit above that ceiling. A further 14 are sequences, which no shortcut reproduces — copy those instead. Each platform's method is spelled out in the keyboard guide.
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How smiley symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
About 58% come from Emoticons. The rest come from Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs. 53 are plain text and follow your font.
136 are emoji and arrive in colour you cannot change. Unicode files the emoji ones under Smileys & Emotion. 14 are built from more than one character.
Copy the whole thing, or it breaks apart. The newest here arrived in Emoji 13.0. Older phones show a blank box instead.
What travels is the character; what you see is whatever font the destination reaches for. That is why the same smiley symbol can look heavier on a phone than in a document.
175Single characters
14Sequences
136Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with smiley symbols
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Mixing up White Smiling Face and Hangul Syllable Us.
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Treating the whole set as if it renders identically.
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Copying only part of one of the 14 multi-code-point sequences instead of the whole value.
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Reaching for one of the 136 emoji entries where a text mark was needed, so the colour artwork clashes with the surrounding type.
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Smiley Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between White Smiling Face and Hangul Syllable Us?+
They are two distinct Unicode characters: White Smiling Face is U+263A (HTML ☺) and Hangul Syllable Us is U+C6C3 (HTML 웃). A font may draw them almost identically, but they sort and search as separate values.
What is the HTML code for white smiling face?+
☺ is the hexadecimal form and ☺ the decimal one; both render as ☺. On a page that declares UTF-8 you can also just paste the character.
Which smiley symbols work as plain text rather than emoji?+
53 of the 189 are ordinary text characters. They take the colour and weight of the surrounding font, which suits documents, code and interface labels. The other 136 are emoji and arrive as colour artwork you cannot restyle.
Why does one of these smiley symbols split apart when I paste it?+
14 entries here are sequences of more than one code point. If the destination does not support the sequence, or if the copy was truncated, the parts render individually. Copy the entry with the button rather than by selecting the characters.
Which Unicode block are these smiley symbols in?+
The answer is Emoticons, covering 72 of them; the rest come from Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs. That matters because a font either supports a block broadly or barely at all.
Will these smiley symbols work on older phones?+
The newest entry on this page was introduced in Emoji 13.0. Devices that have not received a font update since then will show a blank rectangle instead. Test on a real older device before using a recent character where the meaning matters.
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Learn more about smiley symbols
Tools that pair with smiley symbols
Expressive characters are normally going into a caption or a display name, where a styled word alongside them does more work than another pictograph.
Upside-Down Text ConverterReverse and substitute letters to make playful upside-down text, then test the result in its final app.Open the text converter →Bubble Text ConverterTurn ordinary letters and numbers into enclosed Unicode characters for short labels and profile text.Open the text converter →
The Symbol Maker assembles any of these into a framed, copyable line. Seven browser-based utilities are collected in the Unicode tools hub, which explains which one fits which job.
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The data behind this page
All counts derive from the 189 values actually stored for this collection. Rather than curating names by hand, this page reads them from the Unicode 17.0 database, and takes emoji membership from the standard's own data files.
- Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
- Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
- The Unicode Standard, current version
- How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data