Grinning Face with Sweat Emoji
Copy 😅 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 😅 mean?
A grin with a drop of sweat. Relief mixed with anxiety — laughing while stressed.
😅 is the grinning face with sweat 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 cold, dejected, excited, face, grinning, mouth, nervous, open, smile, smiling.
How to use 😅
Softens an admission (“forgot to send it 😅”). Signals that something was close, awkward, or nearly went wrong.
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 :sweat_smile: directly.
Good to know
Distinct from 😓, where the face is downcast and the feeling is straightforwardly bad.
Technical details
| Name | Grinning Face with Sweat |
|---|---|
| Character | 😅 |
| Codepoint | U+1F605 |
| HTML entity | 😅 |
| CSS code | \1F605 |
| Shortcode | :sweat_smile: |
| Category | Smileys & Emotion |
| Subgroup | face smiling |
| Emoji version | Emoji 0.6 |
| Keywords | cold, dejected, excited, face, grinning, mouth, nervous, open, smile, smiling, stress, stressed, sweat |