What does 🥲 Smiling Face with Tear mean?
A smile with a single tear rolling down the cheek captures feelings that are happy and sad at once. It can mean being touched or grateful, proud to the point of tears, or nostalgic. Just as often it is used with humor to show you are smiling through the pain, like checking your bank balance after a holiday. It is the emoji for bittersweet moments and brave faces.
🥲 Smiling Face with Tear is an emoji from the Smileys & Emotion category (affectionate faces), added in Emoji 13.0 in 2020. People use it in messages about glad, grateful, happy, joy, pain and proud.
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🥲 Smiling Face with Tear on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Smiling Face with Tear looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Smiling Face with Tear emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🥲 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :smiling_face_with_tear:.
When was the Smiling Face with Tear emoji added?
🥲 Smiling Face with Tear was added in Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🥲 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Smiling Face with Tear. The underlying code (U+1F972) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.