
๐ Grinning squinting face
๐ Emoji meaning
Uncontrollable laughter, mischievous, silly.
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๐ Meaning
I can't stop laughing! Triggered by incredibly funny or ridiculous situations, the grinning and contorted face emoji ๐ expresses the feeling of being on the verge of a fit of laughter. It is often used to express gleeful or mocking laughter at an event or something that has happened to another person. In text communication, this emoji corresponds to โXDโ and โ><โ as text-based emoticons. Within chats, it is used to indicate humorous situations or jokes where laughter becomes uncontrollable. Ultimately, the emoji conveys that you can laugh at the absurdities of life while sharing a common sense of humor with others.
Examples
- Did you see that too? ๐
- I can't stop laughing! ๐
- That was way too funny. ๐
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Commonly confused with
Same Emotion
Beaming face with smiling eyes vs grinning squinting face; both intense happy expressions.
Squinting with big grin vs face with tears of joy; in small size, tears may be barely visible.
Squinting with tongue vs squinting with big grin; both extreme laughter/silliness.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji โGrinning squinting faceโ 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 added
Keywords removed
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
Keywords removed
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there were 2 changes.
Emoji title before
smiling face with open mouth & closed eyes
Emoji title after
grinning squinting face
Keywords added
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there were 2 changes.
Emoji title before
smiling face with open mouth and tightly-closed eyes
Emoji title after
smiling face with open mouth & closed eyes
Keywords added
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
Keywords removed
Similar emojis from "Smiling and Affectionate"
Comments
(4) Comments
Anonymous It's lol.
Michelle Sounds more like "let's just pretend that's funny" (sarcasm) ๐
Doli It is a symbol of a very, very happy feeling.
Diana It expresses enthusiasm.




















