The use of Emoji while communicating either on WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter or any social medium that has Emoji API embedded in it can be so confusing and sometimes may cause an argument or misunderstanding between the receiver and the sender if not use correctly. With Emoji, you can express your feelings and emotions with it and helps speed chatting without typing.
What is Emoji
According to Wikipedia, An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation.
There are thousands of Emoji out there, today we will be releasing the part 1 of the Emojis.
Types of Emojis
Emoji are divided into 5 categories so as to make it easier for users to find it and make use of it. Here is the categories:
- Smileys and people
- Animals and nature
- Food and drinks
- Travel and Places
- Activities
According to Emojipedia, each of these smiley face icons has a very different meaning… Here is the meaning to each of the smiley Emojis by Emojipedia
😀 Grinning Face
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with simple, open eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general pleasure and good cheer or humor.
Not to be confused with 😃 Grinning Face With Big Eyes or 😄 Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes, which have the same smiles but more expressive eye shapes.
This emoji has a cat variant, 😺 Grinning Cat Face.
Grinning Face was approved as part of Unicode 6.1 in 2012 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😃 Grinning Face with Big Eyes
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general happiness and good-natured amusement.
Similar to 😀 Grinning Face but with taller, more excited eyes.
Grinning Face with Big Eyes was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Smiling Face with Open Mouth” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😄 Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general happiness and good-natured amusement.
Similar to 😀 Grinning Face and 😃 Grinning Face With Big Eyes, but with warmer, less excited eyes.
This emoji has a cat variant, 😸 Grinning Cat Face With Smiling Eyes.
Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Smiling Eyes” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😁 Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with smiling eyes and full-toothed grin, as if saying Cheese! for the camera. Teeth may be smoothed-over or crosshatched. Often expresses a radiant, gratified happiness. Tone varies, including warm, silly, amused, or proud.
Prior to 2017, Apple’s design resembled its 😬 Grimacing Face.
Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😆 Grinning Squinting Face
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with a broad, open smile and scrunched, X-shaped eyes. Often conveys excitement or hearty laughter.
Similar to 😀 Grinning Face but with eyes that might say Squee! or Awesome! An emoji form of the >< or xD emoticons.
Grinning Squinting Face was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Tightly-Closed Eyes” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😅 Grinning Face with Sweat
Emoji Meaning
Has the same grin and eyes as 😄 Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes but with a single, blue bead of sweat, usually over its left eye. Intended to depict nerves or discomfort but commonly used to express a close call, as if saying Whew! and wiping sweat from the forehead.
Grinning Face with Sweat was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with a big grin and scrunched, X-shaped eyes, tilted on its side as if rolling on the floor laughing (the internet acronym ROFL). Sheds two tears and tilts right on most platforms. Often conveys hysterical laughter more intense than 😂 Face With Tears of Joy.
Microsoft’s design previously featured a smiley with hands and feet.
Rolling on the Floor Laughing was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
😂 Face with Tears of Joy
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with a big grin, uplifted eyebrows, and smiling eyes, each shedding a tear from laughing so hard. Widely used to show something is funny or pleasing.
Named the Oxford Dictionaries 2015 Word of the Year, and the most used emoji on all platforms from 2011-2021. Briefly overtaken as the top emoji on Twitter in 2021 by 😭 Loudly Crying Face, though as of January 2022 it has reclaimed its top position on the platform.
See also: 🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing which expresses more intense laughter; or cat variant: 😹 Cat Face With Tears of Joy.
Face with Tears of Joy was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
🙂 Slightly Smiling Face
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with simple, open eyes and a thin, closed smile. Conveys a wide range of positive, happy, and friendly sentiments. Its tone can also be patronizing, passive-aggressive, or ironic, as if saying This is fine when it’s really not.
Slightly Smiling Face was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
🙃 Upside-Down Face
Emoji Meaning
A classic smiley, turned upside down. Implemented as a flipped version of 🙂 Slightly Smiling Face on most platforms.
Commonly used to convey irony, sarcasm, joking, or a sense of goofiness or silliness. Its intent can be similar to the bemused Oh well! of🤷Person Shrugging or the shruggie emoticon, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Microsoft’s design previously featured a full-toothed grin.
Upside-Down Face was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😉 Winking Face
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with a slight smile or open mouth shown winking, usually its left eye. May signal a joke, flirtation, hidden meaning, or general positivity. Tone varies, including playful, affectionate, suggestive, or ironic.
Not to be confused with the more mischievous or sexual 😏 Smirking Face. An emoji form of the 😉 emoticon.
Winking Face was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😊 Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, closed smile turning up to rosy cheeks. Often expresses genuine happiness and warm, positive feelings.
An emoji form of the ^^ emoticon.
On Snapchat, this emoji next to a contact denotes that you message that person often but they aren’t your #1 Best Friend.
Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😇 Smiling Face with Halo
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with smiling eyes, closed smile, and halo, usually blue, overhead. Often represents angels, prayers, and blessings. May also convey angelic behavior, e.g., doing good deeds. See also 👼 Baby Angel.
Several platforms, including Apple, feature an expression similar to their 😊 Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes.
Smiling Face with Halo was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
🥰 Smiling Face with Hearts
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with smiling eyes, a closed smile, rosy cheeks, and several hearts floating around its head. Expresses a range of happy, affectionate feelings, especially being in love. The placement of the hearts varies slightly by platform.
Apple’s design features the same expression as its ☺️ Smiling Face.
Smiling Face with Hearts was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 under the name “Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Three Hearts” and added to Emoji 11.0 in 2018.
😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with an open smile, sometimes showing teeth, and red, cartoon-styled hearts for eyes. Often conveys enthusiastic feelings of love, infatuation, and adoration, e.g., I love/am in love with this person or thing.
This emoji has a cat variant, 😻 Smiling Cat Face With Heart-Eyes.
Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
🤩 Star-Struck
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth on most platforms, with stars for eyes, as if seeing a beloved celebrity. Color of stars widely varies by platform, though commonly gold or red. May express that someone or something is amazing, fascinating, impressive, or exciting.
Star-Struck was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 under the name “Grinning Face with Star Eyes” and added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017.
😘 Face Blowing a Kiss
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face winking with puckered lips blowing a kiss, depicted as a small, red heart. May represent a kiss goodbye or good night and convey feelings of love and affection more generally.
Many platforms feature the same eyes as on their 😉 Winking Face.
Microsoft’s design previously featured a feminine smiley with long eyelashes and red lipstick, which could leave a kiss mark.
Face Blowing a Kiss was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Face Throwing a Kiss” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😗 Kissing Face
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with simple, open eyes and puckered lips giving a kiss. Commonly conveys sentiments of love and affection.
Like 😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes, this emoji is sometimes taken to represent whistling, especially when paired with a musical note. May convey such feelings as surprise, admiration, contempt, or feigned innocence, as a person casually whistling after wrongdoing saying, Nothing to look at here.
Similar to 😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes and 😚 Kissing Face With Closed Eyes but with less intimate eyes.
Kissing Face was approved as part of Unicode 6.1 in 2012 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
☺️ Smiling Face
Emoji Meaning
A classic smiley. A yellow face with a modest smile, rosy cheeks, and soft, closed eyes. Many platforms, including Apple, feature relaxed eyebrows. Conveys a wide range of warm, positive feelings, including love, happiness, and gratitude.
Similar to 😊 Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes, which has a broader smile, no eyebrows, and smiling eyes.
This smiley predates Unicode emoji support. In its Unicode name of White Smiling Face, white does not refer to skin tone or ethnicity. See the glossary for the term white in Unicode character names.
Smiling Face was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 under the name “White Smiling Face” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😚 Kissing Face with Closed Eyes
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with smiling eyes, rosy cheeks, and puckered lips giving a kiss. Commonly conveys sentiments of romantic love and affection. Several platforms, including Apple, feature the same eyes and cheeks as their ☺️ Smiling Face.
With its closed eyes, features an expression more intimate than 😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes’s and 😗 Kissing Face’s.
This emoji has a cat variant, 😽 Kissing Cat Face.
Kissing Face with Closed Eyes was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😙 Kissing Face with Smiling Eyes
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with smiling eyes and puckered lips giving a kiss. Commonly conveys sentiments of love and affection.
Like 😗 Kissing Face, this emoji is sometimes taken to represent whistling, especially when paired with a musical note. May convey such feelings as surprise, admiration, contempt, or feigned innocence, as a person with hands in pocket casually whistling after wrongdoing, as if saying Nothing to look at here.
With its smiling eyes, features an expression fonder than 😗 Kissing Face’s but less intimate than 😚 Kissing Face With Closed Eyes’s.
Kissing Face with Smiling Eyes was approved as part of Unicode 6.1 in 2012 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😋 Face Savoring Food
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, closed smile with its tongue sticking out of one corner, as if licking its lips in appetite or contentment. Widely used to convey that a food item is delicious. May also express that a person is attractive.
Face Savoring Food was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Face Savouring Delicious Food” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😛 Face with Tongue
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with small, open eyes and a big grin, playfully sticking out its tongue. Can variously convey a sense of fun, excitement, silliness, cuteness, happiness, or jesting, as if saying Just kidding!
Generally less goofy than 😜 Winking Face With Tongue and less animated than 😝 Squinting Face With Tongue. Google previously featured a more defeated expression and Samsung, a more mocking one.
Because of its stuck-out tongue, note that this smiley may be applied or interpreted in suggestive ways.
Face with Tongue was approved as part of Unicode 6.1 in 2012 under the name “Face with Stuck-Out Tongue” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
😜 Winking Face with Tongue
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face sticking out its tongue and making a zany wink, usually shown with its right eye closed and left wide open. Often conveys a sense of fun, excitement, wackiness, buffoonery, or joking.
Generally goofier than 😛 Face With Tongue and 😝 Squinting Face With Tongue but less “crazy” than 🤪 Zany Face.
Winking Face with Tongue was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Winking Eye” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
🤪 Zany Face
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with its head tilted, its tongue hanging out of a big grin, and wide eyes in a wild, cockeyed expression. Generally used to express silliness.
Commonly represents acting goofy, having fun, and partying and is usually used in a positive manner. May be used in reference to someone or something that is off-kilter.
Microsoft, and WhatsApp previously displayed a full-toothed grin instead of an open mouth with a protruding tongue, which appeared less silly and more menacing. Google’s design used to show the mouth in a grimace, which also read as more disturbing than silly.
Zany Face was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 under the name “Grinning Face with One Large and One Small Eye” and added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017.
😝 Squinting Face with Tongue
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with scrunched, X-shaped eyes and a big grin, sticking out its tongue. Often conveys a sense of fun, excitement, playfulness, hilarity, and happiness, as if saying Squee! or Awesome!
Similar to 😆 Grinning Squinting Face.Generally more exuberant than 😛 Face With Tongue and 😜 Winking Face With Tongue. Samsung previously featured a more sour expression.
Because of its stuck-out tongue, note that this smiley may be applied or interpreted in suggestive ways.
Squinting Face with Tongue was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Tightly-Closed Eyes” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
🤑 Money-Mouth Face
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with raised eyebrows, dollar signs for eyes, and an open smile sticking out a tongue styled after a green, dollar banknote. Some platforms depict the dollar-sign eyes in green circles.
Used for a wide range of content dealing with money, including: making money, loving wealth, being or feeling rich, and concepts of success and excellence (e.g., on the money).
Money-Mouth Face was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
🤗 Smiling Face with Open Hands
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face smiling with open hands, as if giving a hug. May be used to offer thanks and support, show love and care, or express warm, positive feelings more generally.
Due to its hand gesture, often used to represent jazz hands, indicating such feelings as excitement, enthusiasm, or a sense of flourish or accomplishment.
Joins 🤔 Thinking Face, 🤫 Shushing Face, and 🤭 Face With Hand Over Mouth as one of the few smileys featuring hands. For a more obvious hug, see 🫂 People Hugging (new in 2020).
Smiling Face with Open Hands was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 under the name “Hugging Face” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
🤭 Face with Hand Over Mouth
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with a hand covering its mouth. Displays most often with smiling eyes and/or blushing cheeks, suggesting coy laughter or embarrassment, as if cheekily saying Oops!
Prior to the release of iOS 15.4 in March 2022, Apple’s design featured simple, open eyes, suggesting someone gasping Oh my! in serious surprise, shock, concern, or apology. This same update assigned Apple’s original 🤭 design to Emoji 14.0’s new 🫢 Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth emoji.
May be used to similar effect as 🙊 Speak-No-Evil Monkey. See also 🤐 Zipper-Mouth Face. Joins 🤗 Hugging Face, 🤔 Thinking Face, and 🤫 Shushing Face as one of the few smileys featuring hands.
Facebook’s design previously featured open eyes, though an earlier version had smiling eyes like those in the vendor’s current design.
Face with Hand Over Mouth was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 under the name “Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Hand Covering Mouth” and added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017.
