Smile Emoji Copy and Paste

Press Copy for the small smile, or tap one of 24 emoji filed under smile, a typed :-) or a combo.

🙂Slightly smiling faceU+1F642Ready to copy

60 smiles. Tap one to copy it.

Plain smiles 10

Also filed under smile 14

Smiling suns and moons, plus props 7

Text smileys 15

Smile combos 14

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How it works

The smile emoji here is Slightly smiling face, U+1F642, first of the 24 that CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files under smile. For smiley face emoji copy and paste, the classic is Smiling face, U+263A, in the second group.

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Find a smile by its mood

The search box knows CLDR's words as well as the names: blush finds Smiling face with smiling eyes, and ironic finds Cat with wry smile. Four combos include a hand; choose its skin tone under More options.

Old smiles and new ones

Twenty-one of the 24 are labelled Emoji 0.6 or 1.0. The exceptions are Star-struck (5.0), Smiling face with hearts (11.0) and Smiling face with tear (13.0), the likeliest to reach an old phone as an empty box. :-), =) and ^_^ are plain ASCII. ツ and シ are Japanese katakana letters and need a font that has them.

Tips

Slightly smiling face can read as patronising or ironic, Emojipedia notes. To mean it, send Smiling face with smiling eyes.
Unicode's 2019 frequency list has Smiling face with smiling eyes two bands, each roughly a halving, above Slightly smiling face.
Grimacing face is filed under smile, awkward and dentist, and Emojipedia warns its look has differed greatly between platforms.

Questions and answers

Which one is the smile emoji?

Slightly smiling face, the plainest of the 24 that CLDR files under smile. Smiling face, U+263A, is the original: Emojipedia dates it to Unicode 1.1 in 1993, as White smiling face. Only one name holds the bare word smile: Cat with wry smile.

Is a smiley the same thing as a smile emoji?

In Unicode's word lists, barely: CLDR gives smiley to three emoji only, Smiling face with tear, Face exhaling and Face with spiral eyes. The typed smiley is older. Wikipedia dates :-) to a Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board message of 19 September 1982.

How do I type ☺ and ☻ on a Windows keyboard?

Hold Alt and type 1 on the number pad for ☺, or 2 for ☻: they are characters 1 and 2 of code page 437. ☺ is U+263A, which became the Smiling face emoji. ☻ is U+263B, and no emoji sequence uses it.

All 60 smiles

Plain smiles 10

Beaming face with smiling eyes U+1F601. All teeth. CLDR lists nice and teeth. Emoji 0.6.
Grinning face U+1F600. Teeth out, eyes open. CLDR lists cheerful and cheery. Emoji 1.0.
Grinning face with big eyes U+1F603. The same grin with taller eyes. CLDR lists awesome and yay. Emoji 0.6.
Grinning face with smiling eyes U+1F604. Open mouth, curved eyes. CLDR lists laugh and lol beside smile. Emoji 0.6.
Grinning face with sweat U+1F605. A grin with one drop on the brow. CLDR lists nervous and sweat. Emoji 0.6.
Grinning squinting face U+1F606. Eyes squeezed into an X shape. CLDR lists haha and rofl, so it sits nearer a laugh. Emoji 0.6.
Slightly smiling face U+1F642. The small one. CLDR lists happy for it, but Emojipedia notes the tone can be patronising or ironic, so mind who gets it. Emoji 1.0.
Smiling face with halo U+1F607. CLDR lists angel and innocent. Usually sent by someone who is neither. Emoji 1.0.
Smiling face with smiling eyes U+1F60A. Rosy cheeks and shut eyes, the warm one. CLDR lists blush, glad and satisfied. Emojipedia calls it an emoji form of ^^. Emoji 0.6.
Upside-down face U+1F643. On most platforms it is Slightly smiling face turned over, says Emojipedia. CLDR lists hehe. Emoji 1.0.

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Also filed under smile 14

Cat with wry smile U+1F63C. The only emoji with the word smile, not smiling, in its name. CLDR lists ironic and wry. Emoji 0.6.
Face savoring food U+1F60B. Tongue out at dinner. CLDR lists yum and delicious, and smile as well. Emoji 0.6.
Grimacing face U+1F62C. Clenched teeth. CLDR files it under smile, and also under awkward and dentist. Emoji 1.0.
Grinning cat U+1F63A. The grin, on a cat. Emoji 0.6.
Grinning cat with smiling eyes U+1F638. CLDR lists grin for this cat, a word only five emoji get. Emoji 0.6.
Kissing face with smiling eyes U+1F619. A kiss, filed under smile because of the eyes. Emoji 1.0.
Smiling cat with heart-eyes U+1F63B. The heart-eyes face, on a cat. Emoji 0.6.
Smiling face U+263A U+FE0F. Unicode names this character WHITE SMILING FACE and has carried it since version 1.1. CLDR lists outlined and relaxed. It has a plain text form as well. Emoji 0.6.
Smiling face with heart-eyes U+1F60D. Hearts where the eyes go. CLDR lists 143 and ily. Emoji 0.6.
Smiling face with hearts U+1F970. Three hearts in orbit. CLDR lists adore and crush. Emoji 11.0.
Smiling face with horns U+1F608. Purple, horned and pleased. CLDR lists devil and evil. Emoji 1.0.
Smiling face with sunglasses U+1F60E. CLDR lists cool and awesome. The smile is in the name and hidden by nothing. Emoji 1.0.
Smiling face with tear U+1F972. The newest of the 24. One of only three emoji to which CLDR gives the word smiley. Emoji 13.0.
Star-struck U+1F929. No smile in the name, yet CLDR lists smile beside starry-eyed and wow. Emoji 5.0.

Smiling suns and moons, plus props 7

Camera with flash U+1F4F8. The reason for most smiles on record. Emoji 1.0.
First quarter moon face U+1F31B. A crescent in profile, smiling slightly. Emoji 0.6.
Full moon face U+1F31D. A moon with a slight smile, by Emojipedia's description. CLDR lists bright and full. Emoji 1.0.
Last quarter moon face U+1F31C. Its mirror image. CLDR lists dreams for this one only of the two. Emoji 0.7.
New moon face U+1F31A. The same slight smile in the dark. Emojipedia records that people find it creepy. Emoji 1.0.
Sun with face U+1F31E. A face on the sun. CLDR lists sunshine and bright, and no word for the smile. Emoji 1.0.
Tooth U+1F9B7. CLDR lists pearly and white, and gives it dentist, a word Grimacing face gets too. Emoji 11.0.

Text smileys 15

(^‿^) An undertie for the mouth
(◕‿◕) Round eyes, mostly filled in
(✿◠‿◠) Half-circle eyes and a flower behind the ear
:) Colon, bracket: the short form
:-) With a nose, as first proposed in 1982
:] Square bracket, a squarer smile
:^) A caret for a pointed nose
=) Equals sign for taller eyes
^^ Just the smiling eyes, no mouth needed
^_^ Carets for eyes shut in a smile
☻ BLACK SMILING FACE, the filled-in twin. Not an emoji
シ Katakana si, the same idea tilted
ツ Katakana tu, smirking sideways
㋡ A circled katakana tu that reads as a face
ü A letter u with two dots that happens to grin

Smile combos 14

Brave face Smiling face with tear, then thumbs up. Fine, honestly. The thumb follows the skin tone you pick.
Cat that got the cream Cat with wry smile, then glass of milk. Smug, with evidence.
Customer service smile Telephone receiver, then slightly smiling face. Held for the length of the call.
Dentist visit Grimacing face, then tooth. CLDR lists dentist for both halves.
Everything is fine Slightly smiling face, then fire. The ironic reading of the small smile, spelled out.
Flip the smile Slightly smiling face, then upside-down face. The same drawing twice, once each way up.
Flowers for you Smiling face with smiling eyes, then bouquet. The warm smile, with something to hand over.
Halo slipping Smiling face with halo, then smiling face with horns. Both are filed under smile.
Morning person Sun with face, then hot beverage, then smiling face with smiling eyes. Rare, but they exist.
Much obliged Smiling face with smiling eyes, then folded hands. A thank-you. The hands follow the skin tone you pick.
Say cheese Camera with flash, then cheese wedge, then beaming face with smiling eyes. Flash, cheese, teeth.
Selfie smile Selfie, then grinning face with smiling eyes. The arm follows the skin tone you pick.
Small, medium, large Slightly smiling face, then grinning face, then beaming face with smiling eyes. A smile in three sizes.
Smile and wave Slightly smiling face, then waving hand. The hand follows the skin tone you pick.

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 31 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 groups Plain smiles and Also filed under smile together hold every emoji to which that file gives the search word smile: 24 in all, the first 10 being the ones Unicode keeps in its face-smiling subgroup. The script also checks that smiley is listed for three emoji only (Smiling face with tear, Face exhaling, Face with spiral eyes), that dentist is listed for three emoji (Grimacing face, Face with medical mask, Tooth), and that U+263B BLACK SMILING FACE is in no emoji sequence. 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 text smileys and the 14 combos are this site's own choice, and the combo names are our own. Every character in a text smiley was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. Wikipedia's List of emoticons records :-) :) :] :^) and =) as smiley or happy face (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons), and its Emoticon article dates :-) to a Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board message of 19 September 1982 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon). Emojipedia describes the drawings and their use: https://emojipedia.org/slightly-smiling-face, https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes, https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face, https://emojipedia.org/upside-down-face, https://emojipedia.org/full-moon-face, https://emojipedia.org/new-moon-face, https://emojipedia.org/first-quarter-moon-face and https://emojipedia.org/last-quarter-moon-face. 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)