Meaning
A face with a small, closed-mouth smile, often used to express mild happiness or polite acknowledgment.
Category: Smileys & Emotion
🙂slightly smiling face
🙂 slightly smiling face belongs to Smileys & Emotion. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:slightly_smiling_face:
Keywords
facehappyslightlysmilesmilingslightly smiling face
What does 🙂 slightly smiling face mean?
The slightly smiling face typically conveys a mild, gentle, or polite positive emotion. Depending on context, it can be used to show general contentment, acknowledge a message, or soften the tone of a text. It is often perceived as less enthusiastic than the standard smiling face emoji with smiling eyes.
Often used for
- Acknowledging a message politely
- Expressing mild contentment or general happiness
- Softening the tone of a straightforward request
- Responding to a minor compliment
- Showing a subtle, quiet smile
Tone: Because the smile is small and the eyes lack expression, it can sometimes be interpreted as passive-aggressive, sarcastic, or strained depending on the surrounding context.
Illustrative message examples with 🙂
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- sounds good, see you then 🙂
- thanks for the heads up 🙂
- i'm doing okay, just a bit tired 🙂
- yeah that works for me 🙂
- got it, i'll send the file over in a bit 🙂
Combos, text art & scenes with 🙂
How 🙂 slightly smiling face looks
Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.
OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.
🙂 slightly smiling face codes for developers
Every format below produces 🙂 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | 🙂 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1F642 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🙂 | |
| HTML (hex) | 🙂 | |
| CSS | \1F642 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F642} | |
| JSON | \uD83D\uDE42 | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%99%82 | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :slightly_smiling_face: | |
| Emoticon | :) |
🙂 in other languages
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Source: Unicode CLDR
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