About Smiling Face
Smiling Face is the Unicode character ☺️ at codepoint U+263A in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Developer Notes
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| UTF-8 (hex) | |
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| HEX Entity | |
| CSS (\xxxx) | |
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How to Use Smiling Face
To use the Smiling Face symbol (☺️) in HTML, insert the
entity ☺️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\263A';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u263A' evaluates to ☺️. In Python source, write '\u263A'.
The character encodes to E2 98 BA as UTF-8 bytes and 263A as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9786.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.