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🙂

Slightly smiling face

  • slight smile
  • polite
  • smile
  • courteous
  • slightly
  • smiling
U+1F642

The slightly smiling face emoji — Unicode name “slightly smiling face” — belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group on EmojiAll. You will most often meet it in messages about slight smile, polite and smile. Scored 58 out of 100, it falls in the Neutral range.

On a phone, emoji copy and paste goes one step further: copy Slightly smiling face once and reuse it in a shortcut, a sticker or a note.

1. Slightly smiling face emoji attributes

Symbol
🙂
Name
Slightly smiling face
English name
slightly smiling face
Unicode code point
U+1F642
HTML entity
🙂
Decimal
🙂
Category
Smileys & Emotion›Smiling Faces
Keywords
slight smile, polite, smile, courteous, slightly, smiling
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Size
Background
512 × 512 PNG · transparent background

2. Slightly smiling face emoji meaning

The slightly smiling face emoji is one of the 28 symbols collected in the Smiling Faces subgroup of Smileys & Emotion. Its meaning centers on slight smile, polite and smile, and that is what makes it usable across languages. It is a low-risk choice: the meaning is specific enough that readers rarely misread it.

In everyday chat, the slightly smiling face (🙂) usually appears alongside words about slight smile, polite and smile. A few words of text make the intent clearer than the symbol on its own.

3. Slightly smiling face emoji sentiment

Neutral
58 / 100

Scored 58 out of 100, this emoji sits in the Neutral range. It is safe in formal contexts where a strong emotion would be out of place.

A higher score means a more positive feeling; scores near 50 are neutral.

4. Slightly smiling face emoji examples

  • 1Congrats on the new job 🙂
  • 2Sending good vibes your way 🙂
  • 3Mood for the rest of the week 🙂

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