Smiling Face with Tear emoji 🥲: meaning and how to use it
🥲 — a smile with a single tear — captures bittersweetness: being touched, grateful or a little sad while still smiling. It's “I'm okay, really” with feeling.
:smiling_face_with_tear:What does the Smiling Face with Tear emoji mean?
This emoji blends joy and sadness — happy tears, gratitude, or brave-facing something tough. It's for touching moments, fond goodbyes, and “this means a lot 🥲.”
It also does light, self-aware “holding it together” humor — smiling politely through a minor disappointment.
How the emoji is used
- Bittersweet or touching moments
- Grateful, happy tears
- Brave-facing disappointment
- Fond goodbyes and nostalgia
Smiling Face with Tear emoji: Unicode details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Emoji | 🥲 |
| Unicode code point(s) | U+1F972 |
| Unicode name(s) | Smiling Face With Tear |
| Shortcode | :smiling_face_with_tear: |
| HTML entity | 🥲 |
| Category | Emoji |
Because it is defined in Unicode, this emoji works across phones, laptops and the web — though the exact artwork differs by platform (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and Twemoji all draw it in their own style). The underlying meaning stays the same everywhere.
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Find smiling face with tear icons →Frequently asked questions
What does 🥲 mean?
It means smiling through tears — bittersweet happiness, gratitude, or holding it together while a little sad or touched.
How do I type the smiling face with tear emoji?
On most keyboards, open the emoji picker (Windows: Win + ., Mac: Ctrl + Cmd + Space, iPhone/Android: the 😀 key) and search its name. Or just copy it from the button at the top of this page.
What is the shortcode for 🥲?
The common shortcode is :smiling_face_with_tear:, used on Slack, Discord, GitHub and many other apps that turn :name: into an emoji.