๐Ÿ˜‚

๐Ÿ˜‚ Emoji meaning

Tears of joy, laughter, euphoria, humor, hilarious.

๐Ÿ˜‚ Meaning

The ๐Ÿ˜‚ emoji, which represents a laughing face with tears of joy, expresses that you can barely hold yourself on the chair with laughter. It symbolizes a situation where something is so incredibly funny that you are in tears and in a fit of laughter. Often used to highlight funny or amusing moments where you can barely hold yourself up with laughter. Interestingly, this emoji is one of the most popular and was even chosen as the word of the year in 2015. The ๐Ÿ˜‚ emoji illustrates how laughter and humor bring us together in communication and let us experience joy and happiness together.

Examples

  • I can't stop laughing! ๐Ÿ˜‚
  • Wasn't that hilarious? ๐Ÿ˜‚
  • That was way too funny. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Face with tears of joy
โ†”

Both are โ€˜laughing with tearsโ€™; rolling-on-the-floor nuance of ๐Ÿคฃ is often ignored.

Same Emotion

Face with tears of joy
โ†”

Squinting with big grin vs face with tears of joy; in small size, tears may be barely visible.

Face with tears of joy
โ†”

Cat with tears of joy vs face with tears of joy; anthropomorphic vs human style, same meaning.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji โ€œFace with tears of joyโ€ was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ crying + feels + funny + haha + happy + hehe + hilarious + lmao + lol + rofl + roflmao

Keywords removed

- face with tears of joy

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ face with tears of joy

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ face + joy + laugh + tear

Similar emojis from "Smiling and Affectionate"

Comments

(3) Comments

  • Not funny or you got the whole squad laughing.

  • Much laughter for the joke maker!

  • Laughing so hard, can't stay on the chair.