Meaning
A smiling face with a single tear, often used to show feeling touched, proud, or happily overwhelmed.
Category: Smileys & Emotion
🥲smiling face with tear
🥲 smiling face with tear belongs to Smileys & Emotion. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:smiling_face_with_tear:
Keywords
facegladgratefulhappyjoypainproudrelievedsmilesmileysmilingtear
What does 🥲 smiling face with tear mean?
The smiling face with tear emoji can express a mix of happiness and sadness, often representing feeling touched or overwhelmed with emotion. It is frequently used to convey pride, gratitude, or relief after a difficult experience. Depending on context, it might also indicate bittersweet feelings or trying to stay positive through pain.
Often used for
- Feeling touched by a kind gesture
- Expressing pride in someone's accomplishment
- Showing relief after a stressful situation
- Conveying bittersweet or nostalgic emotions
- Reacting to a heartwarming story
Tone: The tone is generally positive but emotionally vulnerable. It can sometimes be confused with sadness, but the smile usually indicates the underlying emotion is happy or relieved.
Illustrative message examples with 🥲
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- so proud of you for graduating 🥲
- that video of the dog reuniting with its owner got me 🥲
- finally finished the project after 3 weeks 🥲
- thank you guys for the birthday wishes 🥲
- it's my last day at the office 🥲 gonna miss everyone
Combos, text art & scenes with 🥲
How 🥲 smiling face with tear looks
Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.
OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.
🥲 smiling face with tear codes for developers
Every format below produces 🥲 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | 🥲 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1F972 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🥲 | |
| HTML (hex) | 🥲 | |
| CSS | \1F972 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F972} | |
| JSON | \uD83E\uDD72 | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A5%B2 | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :smiling_face_with_tear: |
🥲 in other languages
Spanishcara sonriente con lágrimaFrenchvisage souriant avec une larmeGermanlachendes Gesicht mit TräneItalianfaccina sorridente con lacrimaPortugueserosto sorridente com lágrimaRussianулыбающееся лицо со слезойJapanese嬉し涙の顔Korean눈물 흘리며 웃는 얼굴Chinese含泪的笑脸Lithuanianbesišypsantis veidas su ašaraPolishuśmiechnięta buźka ze łzą
Source: Unicode CLDR
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