Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes

This emoji reveals a big smile with eyes shaped as upside-down crescents, which indicate openness and enjoyable emotions. Many people use it to share happiness, laughter, or a positive mood while talking to each other. Having this emoji makes messages friendlier and more interesting.

Using this emoticon in messages makes them sound more cheerful and friendly. You can use it to thank someone, tell others about good things, or simply put a smile on someone’s face.

Other emojis that are similar include 😀 Grinning Face for a broad smile with open eyes and a placid expression, and 😃 Grinning Face with Big Eyes for a much more animated smile and excited, big eyes.

Grinning Face was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.