🥲

Smiling Face with Tear Emoji 🥲

A closed-eyed smile with a single tear rolling down one cheek — the smiling face with tear captures an emotion that's happy and sad at once. It's used for bittersweet pride, forced positivity through hardship, or that 'I'm fine, really' smile when things are actually kind of a lot.

What 🥲 means

A combination emoji with the 🙂 Slightly Smiling Face emoji and the 💧 Droplet emoji. The teardrop could fall from either eye and on some platforms, the eyes are designed with a glisten in them.

The 🥲 Smiling Face With Tear emoji signifies a complicated emotion, tbh. It suggests feeling happy and tearful at the same time; which could be happy, grateful, and proud tears but also a way of saying I'm okay but also why don't you just kill me.

How and when to use it

If you just told you buddy about something stupid or terrible that you did and they reply with "It could've been worse", you could use 🥲 while responding to that atrocious message, like Thanks a lot, mate 🥲. You made me feel a lot better than I did.
You could also use 🥲 to show that you were touched by something that you witnessed on social media or something someone said. Like, "Awww. That's the sweetest thing you've ever told me 🥲".
If you're telling someone that you're okay when you're clearly not, 🥲 is the perfect emoji. The same applies even while posting a social media story or a post caption about it. For instance, "Smile, they said. Through all the pain, they said. Well, STFU 🥲".
Use 🥲 to express happy tears, a sigh of painful relief or even gratitude.
Laughing on the outside, but crying on the inside? 🥲 is the emoji you're looking for.

Other Names

🥲 Happy Tears
🥲 Smiling Face With a Tear
🥲 Slightly Smiling Face With Tear
🥲 Relieved Face
🥲 Proud
🥲 I'm Okay
🥲 Crying on the Inside
🥲 Grateful
🥲 Teary-Eyed

🥲 in real conversations

What does 🥲 mean from a girl?

Bittersweet — happy and sad tangled together, like laughing through a hard goodbye or feeling grateful while still hurting a little underneath. “Moving out today 🥲” captures the mix exactly.

What does 🥲 mean in texting?

Holding it together while feeling a lot — pride mixed with loss, relief mixed with exhaustion, gratitude mixed with sadness. It's rarely pure happy or pure sad, always both at once.

Is 🥲 sarcastic or genuine?

Both show up — sometimes it's a real bittersweet moment, sometimes it's “I'm fine” when things clearly aren't, said with a forced smile. The tear next to the smile does the honest work either way.

The lowdown

Category: Smileys & Emotion › face-affection
Codepoints: U+1F972
Emoji version: Emoji 13.0
Shortcodes: :smiling_face_with_tear:
Keywords: face, glad, grateful, happy, joy, pain, proud, relieved, smile, smiley, smiling, tear, touched

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.