The white smiling face emoji evolved into the now familiar yellow-faced smiley in the 2000s, coming into wide release under Unicode 6.0 in 2010. Across platforms, the white smiling face emoji has a slightly open-mouthed smile, relaxed eyes and eyebrows, and pink cheeks, leading some to think it’s flushed or blushing.

�� Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes, which has a broader smile, no eyebrows, and smiling eyes. This smiley predates Unicode emoji support. In its Unicode name of does refer to skin tone or ethnicity. See the glossary for the term in Unicode character names. was approved as part of in 1993 under the name “White Smiling Face” and added to

To write the White Smiling Face symbol ☺ on keyboard using ALT codes; ALT+9786, just hold down the ALT key while typing the alt key code 9786. You have to use the numeric keypad of your keyboard. If you don not have numeric keypad, hold down the Fn and ALT keys while typing the alt code number.