Smiley Face Symbol (☺)

Smiley Face Symbol uses ☺, U+263A WHITE SMILING FACE. It is a single legacy text character with an outlined smiling face. Depending on the font and presentation settings, it may appear as monochrome text or receive an emoji-style rendering. The character is distinct from modern colored smiling-face emoji, CAT FACE and other animal emoji, multi-character emoticons such as :-), and kaomoji. Those forms have different code points or are sequences assembled from several characters. In messages, ☺ can add a friendly tone. In a status, button, or feedback control, the exact meaning must be written in text because “smiley” does not specify whether the action means satisfied, happy, complete, or something else. The glyph’s eyes, mouth, and outline vary between fonts. Copy testing should focus on U+263A and on whether the final rendering remains legible at the intended size. Accessible labels should describe the state or emotion in context rather than only announce “white smiling face.”. Unicode and emoji references support the character identity and presentation variation. The page does not expand into an index of every smiling emoji or into a general history of emoticons. For Smiley Face Symbol, those samples represent messages, weather or status labels, social text, and accessible emoji content; each one supplies the surrounding context that the symbol alone cannot provide. Add a text label when the emotional state is important. Check whether the target platform presents the character as text or emoji.