๐Ÿ˜†

๐Ÿ˜† Emoji meaning

Uncontrollable laughter, mischievous, silly.

๐Ÿ˜† Meaning

I can't stop laughing! Triggered by incredibly funny or ridiculous situations, the grinning and contorted face emoji ๐Ÿ˜† 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 โ€œXDโ€œ and โ€œ><โ€œ 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? ๐Ÿ˜†
  • I can't stop laughing! ๐Ÿ˜†
  • That was way too funny. ๐Ÿ˜†

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Commonly confused with

Same Emotion

Grinning squinting face
โ†”

Beaming face with smiling eyes vs grinning squinting face; both intense happy expressions.

Grinning squinting face
โ†”

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

Grinning squinting face
โ†”

Squinting with tongue vs squinting with big grin; both extreme laughter/silliness.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji โ€œGrinning 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 changed

Keywords added

+ closed + eyes + grinning + haha + hahaha + happy + lol + open + rofl + smiling + squinting

Keywords removed

- grinning squinting face - satisfied

In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- open

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there were 2 changes.

Emoji title renamed

Emoji title before

smiling face with open mouth & closed eyes

Emoji title after

grinning squinting face

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ grinning squinting face

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there were 2 changes.

Emoji title renamed

Emoji title before

smiling face with open mouth and tightly-closed eyes

Emoji title after

smiling face with open mouth & closed eyes

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ face + laugh + mouth + open + satisfied + smile

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- laugh - satisfied

Similar emojis from "Smiling and Affectionate"

Comments

(4) Comments

  • It's lol.

  • Sounds more like "let's just pretend that's funny" (sarcasm) ๐Ÿ˜‚

  • It is a symbol of a very, very happy feeling.

  • It expresses enthusiasm.