🥲 smiling face with tear
🥲
U+1F972
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| Character | 🥲 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F972 | |
| HTML decimal | 🥲 | |
| HTML hexadecimal | 🥲 | |
| HTML named entity | — | |
| CSS content | \1F972 | |
| JavaScript / UTF-16 | \uD83E\uDD72 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A5 B2 |
Meaning & usage
Smiling face with tear (🥲) conveys an emotion, object or visual idea as an emoji.
Use it in messages and captions; emoji artwork and interpretation differ between platforms.
U+1F972 identifies this exact smiling face with tear form; copying the character preserves its Unicode identity, while its appearance depends on the font or emoji renderer.
In a message, smiling face with tear can supply an emotional cue; pair it with words when tone could otherwise be misunderstood. smiling face with tear occupies one Unicode code point. A similar-looking letter, punctuation mark or emoji is not necessarily interchangeable with 🥲 in search, filenames or text processing.
How to type smiling face with tear
- Windows
- Use Win + . for the emoji and symbol panel, or Character Map for supported fonts. In Microsoft Word, enter each hexadecimal code (1F972) and press Alt + X. There is no universal decimal Alt code for this character; legacy Alt codes depend on the code page.
- Mac
- Open Character Viewer with Control + Command + Space and search for smiling face with tear. With the Unicode Hex Input keyboard enabled, hold Option and enter the UTF-16 units shown above. Standard Option shortcuts do not cover every Unicode symbol.
- Linux
- In compatible GTK applications, press Ctrl + Shift + U, enter 1F972, then Enter. Enter each code point separately for sequences. Other desktops or apps may require their character picker.
- iPhone & Android
- Look for smiling face with tear in your emoji keyboard if available, or copy it here and paste. Save frequently used symbols as a text replacement or keyboard shortcut; availability varies by keyboard.