☺ is the Unicode emoji WHITE SMILING FACE (“smiling face”), code point U+263A (decimal 9786) in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ☺, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E2 98 BA.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+263A |
| Decimal | 9786 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 98 BA |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 263A |
| UTF-32 | 0000263A |
| HTML decimal | ☺ |
| HTML hex | ☺ |
| CSS | \263A |
| JavaScript | \u263A |
| JSON | \u263A |
| Python | \u263A |
| Python by name | \N{WHITE SMILING FACE} |
| Java, C# | \u263A |
| Rust, Swift | \u{263A} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u263A |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E2%98%BA |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | WHITE SMILING FACE |
| Emoji name | smiling face |
| Code point | U+263A (decimal 9786) |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF) |
| General category | So: Other symbol |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols
- ☲ U+2632 Trigram For Fire
- ☳ U+2633 Trigram For Thunder
- ☴ U+2634 Trigram For Wind
- ☵ U+2635 Trigram For Water
- ☶ U+2636 Trigram For Mountain
- ☷ U+2637 Trigram For Earth
- ☸ U+2638 Wheel of dharma
- ☹ U+2639 Frowning face
- ☻ U+263B Black Smiling Face
- ☼ U+263C White Sun With Rays
- ☽ U+263D First Quarter Moon
- ☾ U+263E Last Quarter Moon
- ☿ U+263F Mercury
- ♀ U+2640 Female sign
- ♁ U+2641 Earth
- ♂ U+2642 Male sign
All 256 characters: Miscellaneous Symbols.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ☺?
- Use ☺ (decimal) or ☺ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+263A?
- E2 98 BA (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E2%98%BA.
- How do I write U+263A in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u263A. Python: \u263A.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3) and the Unicode emoji test data; HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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