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🙂 Slightly smiling face

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Everything's fine! Content, peaceful, friendly, sarcastic, humorous.

Table of Contents

  1.  Meaning
  2.  Confused With
  3.  Emoji History
  4.  Similar Emojis
  5.  Platforms
  6.  Emoji Details
  7.  Comments

🙂 Meaning

This slightly smiling emoji expresses a pleasant contentment and inner peace. It is used to make a statement seem friendlier, even if it is not necessarily meant that way. In some cases, a slight smile can even have a sarcastic undertone, especially when a smile seems inappropriate for the situation. In such situations, it can be used in a humorous way to suggest a wink or an ironic remark. It is ideal for adding a soft, positive touch to text messages or to make the recipient smile.

Examples

  • That’s great! 🙂
  • How are you doing? 🙂
  • Today was a good day. 🙂

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Commonly confused with

Intensity Variant

Slightly smiling face
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Smiling face with smiling eyes

Smiling face with smiling eyes vs slightly smiling; both mild friendly smiles, blush is subtle on some designs.

Same Emotion

Slightly smiling face
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Grinning face

Slightly smiling vs grinning face; both generic positive expressions, intensity rarely matters.

Slightly smiling face
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Smiling face

Slightly smiling face vs smiling face; both simple smiles, one more neutral, differences are tiny.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Slightly smiling face” was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 .

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ happy + slightly + smiling

Keywords removed

- slightly smiling face

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ slightly smiling face

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ face + smile

Similar emojis from "Smiling and Affectionate"

Select Emoji
Smiling and Affectionate
😀 Grinning face 😃 Grinning face with big eyes 😄 Grinning face with smiling eyes 😁 Beaming face with smiling eyes 😆 Grinning squinting face 😅 Grinning face with sweat 🤣 Rolling on the floor laughing 😂 Face with tears of joy 🙂 Slightly smiling face 😉 Winking face 😊 Smiling face with smiling eyes 😇 Smiling face with halo 🥰 Smiling face with hearts 😍 Smiling face with heart-eyes 🤩 Star-struck 😘 Face blowing a kiss 😗 Kissing face ☺️ Smiling face 😏 Smirking face 😚 Kissing face with closed eyes 😙 Kissing face with smiling eyes 🥲 Smiling face with tear
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Comments

(13) Comments

  • Used when someone is insincere.

  • My little brother went crazy when he saw his favorite superhero at the event. 😊

  • This emoji is literally the best, it symbolizes that you are not happy with the situation or that you did not like the statement! You smiled in a sarcastic way!

  • That's a half-smile, a sad smile.

  • A fake smile, or just being polite.

  • This emoji indicates that you are not happy about something, but are okay with it because you have accepted the fact that life is not fair and you are unlucky.

  • Smiling as if everything is fine! Means smiling to hide pain or dissatisfaction.