Laughing crying emoji copy paste starts with Face with tears of joy, U+1F602. It leads ten emoji that CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files under a laugh word, six near misses, props, 15 typed laughs and 14 combos.
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Laugh emoji copy and paste, by search word
Search reads Unicode names and CLDR words, so sarcasm finds Melting face and roflcopter, improbably, finds Helicopter. Under More options, a skin tone recolours Clapping hands and three combos.
Laughing emoji copy paste: which arrive intact
Seven of the ten are labelled Emoji 0.6 or 1.0. Rolling on the floor laughing dates from 3.0, Face with hand over mouth from 5.0 and Melting face from 14.0, which an older phone may show as an empty box. XD and 555 are plain ASCII. (η¬), θ and γ γ γ need Japanese and Korean fonts.
Tips
For rofl emoji copy paste, take Rolling on the floor laughing, which Emojipedia describes as tilted on its side.
For lol emoji copy and paste, CLDR lists lol for six emoji. Grinning squinting face laughs without tears.
A nervous laugh is filed elsewhere: CLDR gives Grinning face with sweat nervous and stress, and no laugh word.
Questions and answers
Which one is the laughing emoji?
Face with tears of joy, and joy emoji copy and paste means the same character. By name, only Rolling on the floor laughing has laughing in it. By search word, CLDR files laughing under Cat with tears of joy alone.
Does the skull emoji mean laughing?
It can. CLDR lists lmao for Skull. Unicode's 2019 frequency list names Face with tears of joy the top emoji, but Wikipedia records it declining from the early 2020s as people in their mid-20s and younger turned to Loudly crying face and Skull.
How do you laugh in text without an emoji?
Wikipedia records 555 in Thai, where five is pronounced ha, jajaja in Spanish, mdr in French, wkwkwk in Indonesian and γ γ γ in Korean. Japanese has (η¬), a chain of w, and θ, the kanji for grass, because a row of w looks like a lawn.
πΉCat with tears of joyU+1F639. The same tears on a cat. It is the only emoji to which CLDR gives the word laughing itself. Emoji 0.6.
π€Face with hand over mouthU+1F92D. The only emoji CLDR files under giggle. Emojipedia reads the hand as coy laughter, or as oops. Emoji 5.0.
πFace with tears of joyU+1F602. The laughing crying one. CLDR lists lol, lmao, rofl, haha and hehe for it, and Oxford Dictionaries made it Word of the Year for 2015. Emoji 0.6.
πGrinning faceU+1F600. The quietest of the ten. CLDR lists laugh for it and none of the louder words. Emoji 1.0.
πGrinning face with smiling eyesU+1F604. An open-mouthed grin. No tears, but CLDR lists laugh and lol. Emoji 0.6.
πGrinning squinting faceU+1F606. Dry-eyed, with the eyes scrunched to an X. The only emoji CLDR files under hahaha. Emoji 0.6.
π« Melting faceU+1FAE0. CLDR lists haha and lol beside sarcasm and embarrassed. A laugh on the way down through the floor. Emoji 14.0.
π€£Rolling on the floor laughingU+1F923. Tilted on its side, and the only emoji with laughing in its name. Emojipedia rates it a more intense laugh than Face with tears of joy. Emoji 3.0.
πSkullU+1F480. Nothing about the drawing laughs, yet CLDR lists lmao for it beside dead. Emojipedia notes it stands for figurative death, such as dying of laughter. Emoji 0.6.
πUpside-down faceU+1F643. CLDR lists hehe, a word only the two crying-with-laughter faces share with it. Emoji 1.0.
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Nearly a laugh 6
π₯ΉFace holding back tearsU+1F979. Filed under joy as well, beside proud and grateful. Wet eyes, nothing spilled. Emoji 14.0.
π Grinning face with sweatU+1F605. CLDR lists nervous and stress. The laugh that comes out when nothing was funny. Emoji 0.6.
πLoudly crying faceU+1F62D. No laugh word at all in CLDR, which files it under sob and bawling. Wikipedia records that younger users send it for laughter in place of Face with tears of joy. Emoji 0.6.
π₯²Smiling face with tearU+1F972. One of five emoji CLDR files under joy. A single tear, and the smile holds. Emoji 13.0.
πWinking face with tongueU+1F61C. The only emoji CLDR files under joke, and one of three filed under funny. Emoji 0.6.
π€ͺZany faceU+1F92A. One big eye, one small, tongue out. It is the only emoji filed under goofy. Emoji 5.0.
Props for a joke 12
πBananaU+1F34C. CLDR lists fruit and potassium. The peel is implied. Emoji 0.6.
πClapping handsU+1F44F. The only emoji CLDR files under applause. It follows the skin tone you pick. Emoji 0.6.
π€‘Clown faceU+1F921. CLDR gives it two words, clown and face. For whoever made the joke by accident. Emoji 3.0.
β°οΈCoffinU+26B0 U+FE0F. CLDR lists dead and death, and also vampire. Emoji 1.0.
π¨Dashing awayU+1F4A8. A puff of air, for a laugh that has run out of breath. CLDR lists comic and gone. Emoji 0.6.
π₯DrumU+1F941. For the two beats and a cymbal after a pun. CLDR lists drumsticks. Emoji 3.0.
πͺ¦HeadstoneU+1FAA6. The only emoji CLDR files under rip. Emoji 13.0.
πHelicopterU+1F681. Here on a technicality. CLDR lists roflcopter for it, and for nothing else. Emoji 1.0.
πJokerU+1F0CF. The playing card. CLDR lists wildcard. Emoji 0.6.
π€MicrophoneU+1F3A4. CLDR lists karaoke and sing. Here it is for stand-up. Emoji 0.6.
πPerforming artsU+1F3AD. The theatre masks. Emojipedia describes one frowning and one smiling, for tragedy and comedy. CLDR lists neither word. Emoji 0.6.
β οΈSkull and crossbonesU+2620 U+FE0F. Filed under dead like the plain Skull, but CLDR gives this one no lmao. Emoji 1.0.
Typed laughs 15
(β§β½β¦)Eyes squeezed shut with the effort
(ββ½β)Arcs for eyes and a triangle for the open mouth
(η¬)Japanese: the kanji for laugh, in brackets
:')Tears of happiness in three keystrokes
γ γ γ Korean: the letter for a k sound, three times. A quiet laugh
θJapanese: the kanji for grass, because a row of w looks like a lawn
555Thai, where five is pronounced ha
:DColon and a capital D, the open-mouthed laugh
=DThe same laugh with taller eyes
jajajaSpanish, where the letter j is a rasp at the back of the throat
^m^Giggling behind a hand, by Wikipedia's list
mdrFrench: mort de rire, roughly died of laughter
wkwkwkIndonesian, used the way lol is
wwwJapanese: w is short for wara, laugh, and gets chained
XDScrunched eyes over a wide mouth, read sideways
Laughing combos 14
ππ€£Banana peelBanana, then rolling on the floor laughing. A peel, then a face that is already on its side.
π€‘πClown behaviourClown face, then face with tears of joy. Laughing at, not with.
π€¦πFacepalm, then laughPerson facepalming, then grinning squinting face. For the pun you hated and enjoyed. The person follows the skin tone you pick.
ππππ€£Four stages of a jokeGrinning face, then grinning squinting face, then face with tears of joy, then rolling on the floor laughing. Grin, squint, tears, floor.
πβ°οΈπͺ¦Full funeralSkull, then coffin, then headstone. Dead, buried and commemorated. It was a good joke.
π€π€π€Giggle fitFace with hand over mouth 3 times. Three of the only emoji filed under giggle.
ππI am deadFace with tears of joy, then skull. CLDR lists lmao for both halves.
π€£πLaughed till I criedRolling on the floor laughing, then loudly crying face. The old laugh, then the one Wikipedia says replaced it.
π π¬Nervous laughGrinning face with sweat, then grimacing face. CLDR lists nervous for the first and awkward for the second.
π«΅πPoint and laughIndex pointing at the viewer, then face with tears of joy. The finger follows the skin tone you pick. For friends only.
π₯πRimshotDrum, then grinning squinting face. A drum, then the only emoji filed under hahaha.
π€ππStand-up nightMicrophone, then face with tears of joy, then clapping hands. The clap follows the skin tone you pick.
πππTriple tears of joyFace with tears of joy 3 times. Wikipedia records that younger users send it in a row like this, ironically.
ππ¨WheezeFace with tears of joy, then dashing away. Still laughing, no air left.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 28 emoji, their names, code points, skin tones, subgroups and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. The search words quoted in the notes are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml, main branch). The group Filed under a laugh word holds every emoji to which that file gives one of the search words laugh, laughing, lol, lmao, rofl, roflmao, haha, hahaha, hehe, giggle, giggling: 10 in all, and the script checks that the only other CLDR search words containing laugh, lol, lmao, rofl, haha, hehe, giggl, chuckl or cackl are lollipop (Lollipop, left out) and roflcopter (Helicopter, kept among the props). It also checks the counts the notes state: laughing for one emoji, hahaha for one, giggle for one, joke for one, goofy for one, rip for one, applause for one, roflmao and hilarious for two, rofl, lmao, hehe and funny for three, haha for four, joy for five, lol and laugh for six. The text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). The other emoji, the 15 typed laughs and the 14 combos are this site's own choice, and the combo names are our own. Every character in a typed laugh was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt). Wikipedia's Face with Tears of Joy emoji article gives Unicode 6.0 of 2010, Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year for 2015, and the move by younger users to Loudly crying face and Skull (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_with_Tears_of_Joy_emoji). Its LOL article records 555 for Thai, jajajΓ‘ for Spanish (typed here without the accent), mdr for French, wkwkwk for Indonesian, γ γ γ for Korean, and (η¬), chained w and θ for Japanese (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL). Its List of emoticons records :D, =D and XD as laughing, :') as tears of happiness, ^m^ as giggling with hand covering mouth and (ββ½β) as laughing, cheerful (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons); (β§β½β¦) is our own addition. Unicode's emoji frequency page, dated 2019, puts Face with tears of joy in its top band with Red heart, and Rolling on the floor laughing one band down (https://home.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-frequency/). Emojipedia describes the drawings and their use: https://emojipedia.org/rolling-on-the-floor-laughing, https://emojipedia.org/skull, https://emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-face, https://emojipedia.org/melting-face, https://emojipedia.org/face-with-hand-over-mouth, https://emojipedia.org/grinning-squinting-face and https://emojipedia.org/performing-arts. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work (the selection, the combo names and the wording are ours; emoji names, sequences and search words come from Unicode's data files and CLDR, under the Unicode License v3; facts from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0; facts from Emojipedia, restated in our own words and credited in source)