Smileys & Emotion Emoji

Exploring Smileys & Emotion Emoji

Smileys & Emotion emoji express feelings, reactions, moods, affection, humor, concern, and many other forms of emotional communication.

This page provides representative examples from each Smileys & Emotion subcategory, including decimal and hexadecimal HTML character references and CLDR short names. For the complete collection, see the Unicode Consortium reference linked below.

Face Smiling

Face Smiling emoji represent happiness, friendliness, amusement, laughter, and other positive expressions.

Face Affection

Face Affection emoji communicate love, warmth, admiration, gratitude, and affectionate feelings.

Face Tongue

Face Tongue emoji are commonly used for joking, teasing, silliness, and playful reactions.

Face Hand

Face Hand emoji combine facial expressions with hand gestures to communicate reactions such as thinking, silence, surprise, or uncertainty.

Face Neutral Skeptical

These emoji express neutrality, skepticism, confusion, doubt, awkwardness, or uncertainty.

Face Sleepy

Face Sleepy emoji represent tiredness, sleep, boredom, and related states.

Face Unwell

Face Unwell emoji communicate sickness, injury, discomfort, dizziness, heat, cold, or other forms of feeling unwell.

Face Hat

Face Hat emoji depict faces wearing distinctive headwear and are commonly associated with costumes, celebrations, or character-like expressions.

Face Glasses

Face Glasses emoji use eyewear to convey coolness, intelligence, disguise, or other expressions.

Face Concerned

Face Concerned emoji express worry, sadness, disappointment, fear, shock, and other difficult emotions.

Face Negative

Face Negative emoji communicate anger, frustration, disapproval, annoyance, and other negative reactions.

Face Costume

Face Costume emoji depict fantasy, disguise, mischief, or character-like faces.

Cat Face

Cat Face emoji provide cat-themed versions of familiar facial expressions and emotions.

Monkey Face

Monkey Face emoji include the familiar see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, and speak-no-evil expressions.

Heart

Heart emoji communicate love, affection, friendship, support, and other emotional meanings using different colors and styles.

Emotion

Emotion emoji include symbols used to represent feelings, affection, excitement, anger, impact, and other emotional ideas.

Summary

Smileys & Emotion emoji cover a wide range of facial expressions, feelings, reactions, hearts, and emotional symbols. The examples on this page provide a representative selection from each subcategory rather than reproducing the entire Unicode emoji collection.

Use the decimal or hexadecimal character references shown in the tables when you need to represent an emoji with HTML character references, or use the emoji character directly in a UTF-8 HTML document.