Smileys & Emotion Emojis
146 emojis in this category. Smileys are the backbone of emoji communication. This category covers faces expressing every human emotion from joy and love to anger and despair, plus hearts, hand gestures of affection, and decorative symbols like stars and sparkles. It's the largest and most-used category in emoji, accounting for over 60% of all emoji usage globally.
146
Total emojis
😂❤️😭
Most popular
Newest: Face with Bags Under Eyes
Most Used Smileys & Emotion Emojis
Relative popularity based on global usage data from Meltwater and Unicode frequency reports.
Source: Meltwater 2024, Unicode Emoji Frequency
Interesting Facts
😂 Face with Tears of Joy was the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year in 2015, the first time an emoji won.
The original 176 emojis created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999 for NTT DoCoMo were almost entirely smiley faces and hearts.
😭 Loudly Crying Face overtook 😂 as the most-used emoji on Twitter/X in 2023.
There are 8 different heart colors in Unicode, each carrying slightly different cultural meanings.
🥹 Face Holding Back Tears was the fastest emoji to reach mainstream adoption after its 2022 release.
The slight differences in smiley designs between Apple and Google have caused real misunderstandings. 😬 on Apple looks pained, but on older Google it looked happy.
Newest Additions
All Smileys & Emotion Emojis
😀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🙃Upside-down 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😚Kissing Face With Closed Eyes😙Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes🥲Smiling Face With Tear😋Face Savoring Food😛Face With Tongue😜Winking Face With Tongue🤪Zany Face😝Squinting Face With Tongue🤑Money-mouth Face🤗Smiling Face With Open Hands🤭Face With Hand Over Mouth🤫Shushing Face🤔Thinking Face🤐Zipper-mouth Face🤨Face With Raised Eyebrow😐Neutral Face😑Expressionless Face😶Face Without Mouth😏Smirking Face😒Unamused Face🙄Face With Rolling Eyes😬Grimacing Face🤥Lying Face😌Relieved Face😔Pensive Face😪Sleepy Face🤤Drooling Face😴Sleeping Face😷Face With Medical Mask🤒Face With Thermometer🤕Face With Head-bandage🤢Nauseated Face🤮Face Vomiting🤧Sneezing Face🥵Hot Face🥶Cold Face🥴Woozy Face😵Face With Crossed-out Eyes🤯Exploding Head🤠Cowboy Hat Face🥳Partying Face🥸Disguised Face😎Smiling Face With Sunglasses🤓Nerd Face🧐Face With Monocle😕Confused Face😟Worried Face🙁Slightly Frowning Face☹️Frowning Face😮Face With Open Mouth😯Hushed Face😲Astonished Face😳Flushed Face🥺Pleading Face😦Frowning Face With Open Mouth😧Anguished Face😨Fearful Face😰Anxious Face With Sweat😥Sad But Relieved Face😢Crying Face😭Loudly Crying Face😱Face Screaming In Fear😖Confounded Face😣Persevering Face😞Disappointed Face😓Downcast Face With Sweat😩Weary Face😫Tired Face🥱Yawning Face😤Face With Steam From Nose😡Enraged Face😠Angry Face🤬Face With Symbols On Mouth😈Smiling Face With Horns👿Angry Face With Horns💀Skull☠️Skull And Crossbones💩Pile Of Poo🤡Clown Face👹Ogre👺Goblin👻Ghost👽Alien👾Alien Monster🤖Robot😺Grinning Cat😸Grinning Cat With Smiling Eyes😹Cat With Tears Of Joy😻Smiling Cat With Heart-eyes😼Cat With Wry Smile😽Kissing Cat🙀Weary Cat😿Crying Cat😾Pouting Cat🫠Melting Face🫢Face With Open Eyes And Hand Over Mouth🫣Face With Peeking Eye🫡Saluting Face😐️Neutral Face🫥Dotted Line Face😶🌫️Face In Clouds😮💨Face Exhaling🫨Shaking Face🙂↔️Head Shaking Horizontally🙂↕️Head Shaking VerticallyFace With Bags Under Eyes😵💫Face With Spiral Eyes🫤Face With Diagonal MouthDistorted Face🥹Face Holding Back Tears👽️Alien🙈See-no-evil Monkey🙉Hear-no-evil Monkey🙊Speak-no-evil Monkey💌Love Letter❤️🔥Heart On Fire❤️🩹Mending Heart🩷Pink Heart🩵Light Blue Heart🩶Grey HeartFight Cloud💥Collision💫Dizzy💦Sweat Droplets💨Dashing Away🕳️Hole🗨️Left Speech Bubble