172 emoji for faces — the faces you reach for most. Tap any character to copy it, or search the whole category by name.
The grid below holds every standard emoji in this category. Click one to copy it to your clipboard; use the search box above if you already know the name.
Smileys are where every conversation starts. This is the full set: the plain happy faces, the laughing and crying ones, the sarcastic raised-eyebrow look, and the newer additions like the melting face and the shaking face that only arrived in recent Unicode versions.
The faces people send most are the tears-of-joy laugh, the loudly crying face, the pleading eyes and the skull — a joke meaning that something is extremely funny. If you are picking just one for a bio, the sparkling or smiling-with-hearts face reads as friendly without being over the top.
Unicode gives every emoji an English name. Knowing the name is useful, because it is what the search box matches and what other people use when they describe an emoji to you.
| Emoji | Official name | Usually means |
|---|---|---|
| 😀 | grinning face | grinning face |
| 😃 | grinning face with big eyes | grinning face |
| 😄 | grinning face with smiling eyes | grinning face |
| 😁 | beaming face with smiling eyes | beaming face |
| 😆 | grinning squinting face | grinning squinting face |
| 😅 | grinning face with sweat | grinning face |
| 🤣 | rolling on the floor laughing | rolling on the floor laughing |
| 😂 | face with tears of joy | face |
| 🙂 | slightly smiling face | slightly smiling face |
| 🙃 | upside-down face | upside-down face |
| 🫠 | melting face | melting face |
| | cracking face | cracking face |
| 😉 | winking face | winking face |
| 😊 | smiling face with smiling eyes | smiling face |
| 😇 | smiling face with halo | smiling face |
| 🥰 | smiling face with hearts | smiling face |
| 😍 | smiling face with heart-eyes | smiling face |
| 🤩 | star-struck | star-struck |
| 😘 | face blowing a kiss | face blowing a kiss |
| 😗 | kissing face | kissing face |
| ☺️ | smiling face | smiling face |
| 😚 | kissing face with closed eyes | kissing face |
| 😙 | kissing face with smiling eyes | kissing face |
| 🥲 | smiling face with tear | smiling face |
| 😋 | face savoring food | face savoring food |
| 😛 | face with tongue | face |
Every character on this page is a button, and the steps are identical on a phone, a tablet and a desktop:
Nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded. These are standard Unicode characters, so the device you are already holding knows how to draw them.
Ordinary text is safe everywhere. The problems start with two groups: characters that need a font the receiving device may not ship with, and applications that deliberately filter what you can type.
| Place | Works? | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Instagram, TikTok, X bio and captions | Yes | Symbols and emoji both display; a handful of rare glyphs may render as a box on older Android versions |
| Discord display name and messages | Yes | Almost everything works, including the rarer box-drawing characters |
| WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal | Yes | Full support for emoji and symbols |
| Word, Google Docs, Excel, Sheets | Yes | Fine on a desktop; fonts on older Office installs may miss the newest glyphs |
| Most online games (usernames) | Sometimes | Many titles strip anything outside their font. Test with one symbol first |
| SMS | Yes, but | An emoji can push a message into a longer billing segment |
The practical rule: if you are decorating a bio or a document, paste freely. If you are building a username that has to survive a game login screen, start with one character, confirm it appears, then add the rest.