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U+263A · WHITE SMILING FACE

White Smiling Face

  • CodepointU+263A
  • NameWHITE SMILING FACE
  • Emoji namesmiling face
  • Decimal9786
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+263A (☺) is WHITE SMILING FACE, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “smiling face”, in the Smileys & Emotion group, subgroup face-affection. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+263A U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

How to type ☺

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 98 BA3 bytes
UTF-16263A1 code unit
UTF-320000263A4 bytes
HTML decimal☺
HTML hex☺
CSS\263Ain content: "…"
JavaScript\u263A
JSON\u263A
Python\u263A
Python\N{WHITE SMILING FACE}by name
Java / C#\u263A
C / C++\u263Auniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{263A}
Go\u263A
Ruby\u263A
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9786)
URL-encoded%E2%98%BApercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
U+2634☴Trigram for Wind U+2635☵Trigram for Water U+2636☶Trigram for Mountain U+2637☷Trigram for Earth U+2638☸Wheel of Dharma U+2639☹White Frowning Face U+263B☻Black Smiling Face U+263C☼White Sun with Rays U+263D☽First Quarter Moon U+263E☾Last Quarter Moon U+263F☿Mercury U+2640♀Female Sign