😆 Meaning – Grinning Squinting Face Emoji

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This icon depicts a face with eyes tightly shut and mouth open in a wide smile, showing teeth. This emoji could mean emphatic joy, laughter, surprise or excitement. Grinning Squinting Face Emoji is often used upon receiving good news, divulging a surprise, showing enthusiastic support, or because something hilarious was mentioned. It’s one of the more widely used emojis and strongly implies laughter.

The Grinning Squinting Face Emoji appeared in 2010, and also known as the Squinty Face. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Open Emoji.

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Grinning Squinting Face Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F606
Unicode name: Grinning Squinting Face
Category: Smileys & People / Positive Faces
Keywords: face, laugh, mouth, smile, open, happy
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F606
Decimal HTML Entity: 😆
Hex HTML Entity: 😆
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83D 0xDE06
Wikipedia: n/a
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

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🌐 Grinning Squinting Face Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	grinsendes Gesicht mit zusammengekniffenen Augen	geschlossene Augen, Gesicht, offener Mund
Français	visage souriant avec yeux plissés	bouche, rire, sourire, visage
Русский	смеется с прищуренными глазами	прищуренные глаза, смеется с закрытыми глазами, смех, смех с прищуренными глазами
Español	cara sonriendo con los ojos cerrados	abierta, boca, cara, risa
Italiano	sorriso a bocca aperta con occhi chiusi	bocca aperta, occhi chiusi, sorriso
Português	rosto risonho com olhos semicerrados	gargalhada, olhos fechados, rosto, sorriso com olhos fechados
Polski	uśmiechnięta twarz z przymrużonymi oczami	satysfakcja, uśmiech, wesoły

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How to type Grinning Squinting Face Emoji

There are number of methods to type Grinning Squinting Face Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 😆 emoji

It's very easy to get Grinning Squinting Face Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 😆 meaning and look at 😆 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

😆 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.