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Smiling face symbol

U+263A

One of the original PC characters, typed on Windows with Alt 1. Many phones turn it into a colored emoji.

Official name: WHITE SMILING FACE
Unicode block: Miscellaneous Symbols
Added in: Unicode 1.1
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UTF-8 bytes: E2 98 BA
Keywords: face, happy, outlined, relaxed, smile, smiling, smiley, emotion
Keyboard: Windows: hold Alt, type 1 on the number pad
Categories: Text faces

The Unicode standard defines this character, but your device’s fonts decide how it looks, so it may differ on other screens.

Data: Unicode 16.0, Emoji 16.0.