Face with Tears of Joy Emoji
Copy 😂 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 😂 mean?
Laughter strong enough to produce tears. For over a decade it was the default way to mark something funny, and in 2015 Oxford Dictionaries named it Word of the Year.
😂 is the face with tears of joy emoji. It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group, in the face smiling set, and was approved as part of Emoji 0.6.
People also search for it as crying, face, feels, funny, haha, happy, hehe, hilarious, joy, laugh.
How to use 😂
Still the most widely used emoji worldwide, but its register has split by age. Younger users on TikTok and Twitter/X largely moved to 💀 and 😭 for comedy, and now read 😂 as something a parent or a brand would send.
Click the copy button above to put 😂 on your clipboard, then paste it anywhere Unicode is supported — WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Slack, email, or a document. On Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :joy: directly.
Good to know
If you are writing for an audience under about 25, 😂 can make copy read as dated. It remains completely neutral in group chats, WhatsApp, and most workplace contexts.
Technical details
| Name | Face with Tears of Joy |
|---|---|
| Character | 😂 |
| Codepoint | U+1F602 |
| HTML entity | 😂 |
| CSS code | \1F602 |
| Shortcode | :joy: |
| Category | Smileys & Emotion |
| Subgroup | face smiling |
| Emoji version | Emoji 0.6 |
| Keywords | crying, face, feels, funny, haha, happy, hehe, hilarious, joy, laugh, lmao, lol, rofl, roflmao, tear |