Smiling Face With Tear emoji meaning

What does 🥲 mean in messages?

Unicode calls this emoji “smiling face with tear.” It adds a reaction or feeling linked to smiling face with tear. Read it with the words around it.

Use 🥲 for emotional tone, reactions, and conversational nuance. Unicode calls it “smiling face with tear.” That name is a safe, neutral label when the social meaning is not clear.

For a wider view, browse smileys & emotion emoji, use the emoji meaning finder, or read the emoji meanings in context guide.

Example messages with 🥲

Unicode construction and code points

This copyable emoji is a single-code-point emoji. It uses 1 core Unicode code point: U+1F972 smiling face with tear.

Version and platform support

The smiling face with tear emoji was introduced in Emoji 13.0 and is classified in the face affection subgroup. Most maintained platforms support this emoji, although artwork and sequence handling still vary by vendor.

Names, keywords, and classification

The standardized name is “smiling face with tear.” Search terms indexed for this entry include face, smiling, tear, with. It belongs to Smileys & Emotion and the face affection subgroup. These labels help identify and find the character; they do not prove a sender’s intended tone.

Accessibility and clear wording

For alt text, start with “smiling face with tear.” Use clearer words when the emoji is only decoration, a metaphor, or slang.

Do not use this emoji as the only carrier of an emergency, deadline, consent decision, medical instruction, or other high-stakes message. The character is standardized, but Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and social platforms supply different artwork.