grinning face emoji meaning
Used to convey happy emotions or to express excitement, the grinning face emoji is a variation of the popular grinning face with smiley eyes or the grinning face with big eyes. The main difference is in the eyes, which resemble small pin holes rather than the more traditional arching smiley eyes.
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How to use grinning face emoji
This emoji is perfect when you want to show eagerness, happiness or general excitement. For example, your friend invites you for a pizza party with guaranteed garlic bread. An appropriate response could be: Yes! 😀
In more exciting moments, multiple grinning faces can be chained together to amplify your message. Let’s take the previous example; your friend not only invites you to a pizza party with guaranteed garlic bread, but there’s also extra sour cream dip. An appropriate response could be: Hell yeah! 😀😀😀
History of the 😀 emoji
The grinning face was officially added to Unicode 6.1 in 2012 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015. This version saw other popular emojis like Tears of Joy and Kissing Face added as well, making it a landmark release in the history of emojis.
| Codepoints | U+1F600 |
| Shortcodes | :grinning: |
| Also known as | Happy Face Smiley Face |
How 😀 is displayed online
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