😆

Grinning Squinting Face Emoji 😆

Eyes squeezed fully shut mid-laugh is what grinning squinting face adds to a toothy grin, a short, sudden burst rather than streaming tears. Save it for something that actually got a real laugh out loud, not just a polite ha.

What 😆 means

The grinning, squinting face emoji is a yellow-faced emoji with inwardly squinted and closed eyes and a bright grin.

Much-influenced by Chandler Bing's face, this emoji signifies tightly squished in laughter. No, not LOL, but just a short-lived outburst of laughter. This emoji is the animated version of the 'XD' emoticon.

How and when to use it

How and When to Use 😆 Grinning Squinting Face Emoji

When you read something hilarious and your face twitches with the most ridiculous laugh, send this emoji as a textual response to that joke.
Send someone something hilarious and back that joke with this emoji.
Use this emoji when you liked the joke and laughed about it but didn't have tears nor roll on the floor for it.

Other Names

😆 Big grinning face
😆 Squinted grin
😆 A laughter outburst
😆 Closed-eye laugh

😆 in real conversations

What does 😆 mean compared to 😂?

😆 is a real laugh — eyes scrunched shut, mouth wide open, the reaction to something that's actually funny rather than something that broke you. 😂's tears push it further, into 'I can't breathe' territory. 😆 works for a solid laugh out loud; 😂 is what you reach for when the joke's genuinely too much.

Is 😆 the same as 😄?

Close, but not quite. 😄 keeps its eyes open in a crinkled smile — warm, sincere happiness more than active laughter. 😆 shuts the eyes completely, which reads as the physical act of laughing hard rather than just being glad about something. Use 😄 for 'this makes me happy'; use 😆 for 'that actually got a laugh out of me.'

What does 😆 mean after a joke lands?

Genuine amusement, not a polite 'haha.' Because it's drawn mid-laugh rather than mid-smile, sending it back after someone's joke confirms it actually worked, not just that you saw it. It's the texting equivalent of an audible laugh rather than a nod of acknowledgment, the kind of reaction you can't really fake convincingly in a text.

The lowdown

Category: Smileys & Emotion › face-smiling
Codepoints: U+1F606
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :laughing::satisfied:
Keywords: closed, eyes, face, grinning, haha, hahaha, happy, laugh, lol, mouth, open, rofl, smile, smiling, squinting

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.