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<p>A&nbsp;thumbs-up gesture indicating approval.</p>

<p>In certain contexts, the use of the Thumbs Up emoji can be construed as being passive aggressive or sarcastic. Despite this possible use, it&nbsp;remains a popular means of quickly and earnestly expressing approval.</p>

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Thumbs Up Sign

<p>Has the same grin and eyes as&nbsp;<a href="/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😄 Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes</a>&nbsp;but with a single, blue bead of sweat, usually over its left eye. Intended to depict nerves or discomfort but commonly used to express a close call, as if saying <em>Whew!</em> and wiping sweat from the forehead.&nbsp;</p>

Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat

<p>A yellow face with a big grin and scrunched, X-shaped eyes, tilted on its side as if rolling on the floor laughing (the internet acronym <em>ROFL</em>). Sheds&nbsp;two tears and tilts right on most platforms. Often conveys hysterical laughter&nbsp;more intense than <a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face With Tears of Joy</a>.</p>

<p>Using shown tilted leftwards, though WhatsApp&#39;s design tilts to the right.</p>

<p>Microsoft&#39;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/rolling-on-the-floor-laughing/">previously featured</a> a smiley with hands and feet.</p>

Rolling on the Floor Laughing

<p>A yellow face with a big&nbsp;grin, uplifted eyebrows, and smiling eyes, each shedding a tear from laughing so hard. Widely used to show something is funny or pleasing.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Named the Oxford Dictionaries 2015 <a href="https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2015/">Word of the Year</a>, and the most used emoji on all platforms <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">from 2011-2021</a>. Briefly <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">overtaken</a> as the top emoji on <a href="/twitter/">Twitter</a> in 2021 by&nbsp;<a href="/loudly-crying-face/">😭 Loudly Crying Face</a>, though as of January 2022 it has <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/tears-of-joy-just-about-returns-as-twitters-top-emoji/">reclaimed its top position on the platform</a>.</p>

<p>See also:&nbsp;<a href="/rolling-on-the-floor-laughing/">🤣&nbsp;Rolling on the Floor Laughing</a>&nbsp;which expresses more intense laughter;&nbsp;or cat&nbsp;variant:&nbsp;<a href="/cat-with-tears-of-joy/">😹&nbsp;Cat Face With Tears of Joy</a>.</p>

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Face with Tears of Joy

<p>A yellow face with simple, open eyes and a thin, closed smile. Conveys a wide range of positive, happy, and friendly sentiments. Its tone can&nbsp;also be patronizing, passive-aggressive, or ironic, as if saying <i>This is fine</i> when it&rsquo;s really not.</p>

Slightly Smiling Face

<p>A classic smiley, turned upside down. Implemented as a flipped version of&nbsp;<a href="/slightly-smiling-face/">🙂 Slightly Smiling Face</a>&nbsp;on most platforms.</p>

<p>Commonly used to convey&nbsp;irony, sarcasm, joking, or a sense of goofiness or silliness.&nbsp;Its intent can be&nbsp;similar to the bemused <i>Oh well! </i>of<i> </i><a href="/person-shrugging/">🤷<i>&nbsp;</i>Person Shrugging</a> or the <i>shruggie</i> emoticon, &macr;\_(ツ)_/&macr;.</p>

<p>Microsoft&#39;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/upside-down-face/">previously featured</a> a full-toothed grin.</p>

Upside-Down Face

<p>A yellow smiley face melting into a puddle.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The eyes and mouth slip down the face, yet still maintain a distorted smile. This quality lends this emoji to sarcasm.</p>

<p>Can be used literally to talk about extreme heat. Can also be used metaphorically to talk about embarrassment, shame, a slowly sinking sense of dread, or feeling overwhelmed in some way.</p>

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Melting Face

<p>A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, closed smile turning up to rosy cheeks. Often expresses genuine happiness and warm, positive feelings.</p>

<p>An emoji form of the ^^ emoticon.</p>

<p>On&nbsp;<a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a>, this emoji next to a contact denotes that you message that&nbsp;person often but they aren&#39;t your&nbsp;<em>#1 Best Friend</em>.</p>

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Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes

<p>A yellow face with a flat, neutral mouth and furrowed eyebrows, its left raised higher than its right. Conveys a wide variety of sentiments, including suspicion, skepticism, concern, consideration, disbelief, and disapproval.</p>

<p>Its expression <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/rise-of-the-colbert-emoji/">has notably been likened</a> to the signature look of comedian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert">Stephen Colbert</a> as well as actor/wrestler <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_Johnson">Dwayne &ldquo;The Rock&rdquo; Johnson</a>.</p>

Face with One Eyebrow Raised

<p>A yellow face with simple, open eyes and a flat, closed mouth. Intended to depict a neutral sentiment but often used to convey mild irritation and concern or a deadpan sense of humor.</p>

Neutral Face

<p>A yellow face with flat, closed eyes and mouth. May convey a sense of frustration or annoyance more intense than suggested by&nbsp;<a href="/neutral-face/">😐 Neutral Face</a>,&nbsp;as if taking a moment to collect itself.</p>

<p>Microsoft&#39;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/expressionless-face/">previously</a> displayed this emoji with its eyes open, while Samsung&#39;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/expressionless-face/">previously</a> had eyebrows.</p>

Expressionless Face

<p>A yellow face with simple, open eyes and no mouth, as if at a loss for words. Meaning widely varies, but commonly conveys speechlessness, humility, and silence.&nbsp;May also convey moderately negative emotions, such as disappointment, frustration, or sadness.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/face-without-mouth/">previously featured</a> raised eyebrows and blushing cheeks.</p>

Face Without Mouth

<p>A muted yellow neutral face with a dotted or dashed outline.</p>

<p>An established comic book trope, dotted lines around a character can represent someone that is invisible or hidden. It can also represent smallness, submissiveness, isolation, and depression.</p>

<p>This emoji has the same expression&nbsp;as&nbsp;<a href="/neutral-face/">😐 Neutral Face</a>.</p>

Dotted Line Face

<p>A yellow face with slightly raised eyebrows, a frown, and eyes looking to the side. May convey a variety of negative emotions, including irritation, displeasure, grumpiness, and skepticism, as if giving the <a href="/eyes/">side-eye</a>.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/smirking-face/">😏&nbsp;Smirking Face</a>, which features similar eyes but a wry smile.</p>

Unamused Face

<p>A yellow face with&nbsp;a small, closed mouth, flat or frowning, rolling its large, white eyes upwards. As with the gesture of an eye-roll, commonly conveys moderate disdain, disapproval, frustration, or boredom. Tone varies, including playful, sassy, resentful, and sarcastic, as if saying <em>Yeah, whatever</em>.</p>

<p>Samsung&#39;s design&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/face-with-rolling-eyes/">previously depicted</a> a face smiling and looking to the side.</p>

Face with Rolling Eyes

<p>A yellow face with raised eyebrows, enlarged eyes, slight frown, and long nose,&nbsp;indicating&nbsp;it&rsquo;s telling a lie in the manner of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio">Pinocchio</a>. Like that character, Facebook&#39;s design features a wooden nose.&nbsp;</p>

<p>May represent lying, a liar, and other concepts of deceit and dishonesty to varying degrees of intensity. Sometimes used to convey disbelief (e.g., <i>You must be kidding</i>) or feeling abashed (e.g., as if&nbsp;caught in the act of lying).</p>

Lying Face

<p>A face with spiral-shaped eyes, commonly used to indicate dizziness, but may also represent hypnosis or other forms of disorientation.</p>

<p>Created in <a href="/emoji-13.1">2020</a> disambiguate from the <a href="/dizzy-face">😵 Face with Crossed-Out Eyes</a> emoji which previously displayed spiral eyes on <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-may-2019-update/dizzy-face/">some</a> <a href="/google/android-8.0/dizzy-face/">platforms</a>, but X eyes on others.&nbsp;This emoji will consistently show spiral eyes on all platforms.</p>

<p>Unlike other vendors,&nbsp;Huawei&#39;s design features a&nbsp;<a href="/dizzy">💫 Dizzy</a> symbol atop this emoji&#39;s head.</p>

Face with Spiral Eyes

<p>A yellow face with a broad, closed smile wearing black <a href="/sunglasses/">sunglasses</a>, as if a pair of classic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray-Ban_Wayfarer">Wayfarers</a>. Often used to convey the slang&nbsp;sense of <a href="/cool-button/">cool</a>. May also express a confident, carefree attitude or that something is excellent.</p>

<p><a href="/nerd-face/">🤓&nbsp;Nerd Face</a> wears similarly shaped <a href="/glasses/">eyeglasses</a>.</p>

<p>On <a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a>, this emoji next to a contact denotes that you have best friends in common with this person.</p>

Smiling Face with Sunglasses

<p>A yellow face with a closed slanted mouth. Can be used to express skepticism,&nbsp;confusion, or&nbsp;frustration.&nbsp;</p>

Face with Diagonal Mouth

<p>A gesture showing the index finger and&nbsp;thumb touching&nbsp;to make an open circle. Represents &ldquo;I&rsquo;m okay&rdquo; or &ldquo;yes, that&rsquo;s correct / good&rdquo;.</p>

<p>In American Sign Language (ASL), the number nine is represented with this gesture. The same hand sign can be seen as offensive in some cultures, including in parts of Europe, the Middle East, and South America.</p>

<p>This can also be used as&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/no-the-ok-hand-is-not-a-symbol-of-white-power/">a&nbsp;symbol of White Supremacy</a>, depending on context.</p>

OK Hand Sign

<p>Two hands raised in the air, celebrating success or another joyous event.</p>

<p><a href="/au-kddi/type-d-2/raising-hands/">Originally&nbsp;animated</a> to show hands being raised, as might be done along with the the exclamation&nbsp;<em>Banzai!</em>&nbsp;in Japan. Now more commonly only shows the hands in the air.</p>

Person Raising Both Hands in Celebration

<p>A person with arms above their head, making an &lsquo;OK&rsquo; sign (circle) with the whole body. No gender is specified.</p>

<p>Previously displayed as <a href="/google/android-4.3/person-gesturing-ok/">an alien</a> or <a href="/google/android-4.4/person-gesturing-ok/">blob</a> on Android,&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/person-gesturing-ok/">a man on Windows</a>, and <a href="/apple/ios-10.2/person-gesturing-ok/">a woman</a> on most <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/person-gesturing-ok/">other platforms</a>.</p>

Face with OK Gesture

<p>The male version of the <a href="/person-gesturing-ok/">🙆&nbsp;Face With OK Gesture</a> emoji.</p>

Man Gesturing OK

<p>The female version of the <a href="/person-gesturing-ok/">🙆&nbsp;Face With OK Gesture</a> emoji.</p>

Woman Gesturing OK

<p>The letters&nbsp;<em>OK</em>, shown enclosed&nbsp;in a square.&nbsp;Meaning <a href="/ok-hand/" title="👌 Ok Hand Sign">Okay</a>, denoting approval. The opposite of the <a href="/ng-button/" title="🆖 Squared NG">Squared NG Emoji</a>.</p>


Squared OK

<p>A hand waving most commonly used to say &ldquo;hello&rdquo; or &ldquo;goodbye&rdquo;.</p>

<p>This emoji can be used to convey a sense of <a href="https://youtu.be/ukJmB4rLNKA?t=2m">not being friends any more</a>&nbsp;when used on WeChat in China.</p>

Waving Hand Sign

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<p>Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.</p>

<p>Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.</p>

<p>Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.</p>

<p>Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.</p>

<p>Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.</p>

<p>3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.</p>

<p>Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.</p>

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