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<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

<p>A yellow face with simple, open eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general pleasure and good cheer or humor.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/grinning-face-with-big-eyes/">😃 Grinning Face With Big Eyes</a>&nbsp;or <a href="/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😄 Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes</a>, which have the same smiles but more expressive eye shapes.&nbsp;</p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/grinning-cat/">😺 Grinning Cat Face</a>.</p>

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Grinning Face

<p>A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general happiness and good-natured amusement.</p>

<p>Similar to <a href="/grinning-face/">😀 Grinning Face</a>&nbsp;but&nbsp;with taller, more excited eyes.&nbsp;</p>

Smiling Face with Open Mouth

<p>A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general happiness and good-natured amusement.</p>

<p>Similar to&nbsp;<a href="/grinning-face/">😀 Grinning Face</a> and <a href="/grinning-face-with-big-eyes/">😃&nbsp;Grinning Face With Big Eyes</a>, but with warmer, less excited eyes.</p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/grinning-cat-with-smiling-eyes/">😸&nbsp;Grinning Cat Face With Smiling Eyes</a>.</p>

Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Smiling Eyes

<p>A yellow face with smiling eyes and full-toothed grin, as if saying <em>Cheese!</em>&nbsp;for the camera.&nbsp;Teeth may be smoothed-over or crosshatched. Often expresses a radiant, gratified happiness. Tone varies, including warm, silly, amused, or proud.</p>

<p><a href="/apple/ios-6.0/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">Prior to 2017</a>, Apple&#39;s design resembled its&nbsp;<a href="/grimacing-face/">😬 Grimacing Face</a>.</p>

Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes

<p>A yellow face with a slight&nbsp;smile or open mouth&nbsp;shown winking, usually its left eye. May signal&nbsp;a joke, flirtation, hidden meaning, or general positivity. Tone varies, including playful, affectionate, suggestive, or ironic.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with the more mischievous or&nbsp;sexual&nbsp;<a href="/smirking-face/">😏 Smirking Face</a>.&nbsp;An emoji form of the ;) emoticon.</p>

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Winking 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 an open smile, sometimes showing teeth, and red, cartoon-styled hearts for eyes. Often conveys enthusiastic feelings of love, infatuation, and adoration, e.g., <i>I love/am in love with this person or thing.</i></p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/smiling-cat-with-heart-eyes/">😻 Smiling Cat Face With Heart-Eyes</a>.</p>

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Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes

<p>A yellow face with a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth on most platforms, with stars for eyes, as if seeing a beloved celebrity. Color of stars widely varies by platform, though commonly gold or red. May express that someone or something is amazing, fascinating, impressive, or exciting.</p>

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Grinning Face with Star Eyes

<p>A yellow face winking with puckered lips blowing a kiss, depicted&nbsp;as a small, <a href="/red-heart/">red heart</a>. May represent&nbsp;a kiss goodbye or good night and convey feelings of love and affection more generally.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Many platforms feature the same eyes as on their <a href="/winking-face/">😉&nbsp;Winking Face</a>.</p>

<p>Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/face-blowing-a-kiss/">previously featured</a> a feminine smiley with long eyelashes and red <a href="/lipstick/">lipstick</a>, which could leave a <a href="/kiss-mark/">kiss mark</a>.</p>

Face Throwing a Kiss

<p>A yellow face with simple, open eyes and puckered lips giving a kiss. Commonly conveys sentiments of love and affection.</p>

<p>Like <a href="/kissing-face-with-smiling-eyes/" title="😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes">😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes</a>, this emoji is sometimes taken to represent whistling, especially when paired with a <a href="/musical-note/">musical note</a>. May convey such feelings as surprise, admiration, contempt, or feigned innocence, as a person casually whistling after wrongdoing saying,&nbsp;<em>Nothing to look at here</em>.</p>

<p>Similar to <a href="/kissing-face-with-smiling-eyes/" title="😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes">😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes</a> and <a href="/kissing-face-with-closed-eyes/">😚&nbsp;Kissing Face With Closed Eyes</a> but with less intimate eyes.</p>

Kissing Face

<p>A yellow face with smiling eyes, rosy cheeks, and puckered lips giving a kiss. Commonly conveys sentiments of romantic love and affection. Several platforms, including Apple, feature the same eyes and cheeks as their <a href="/smiling-face/">☺️&nbsp;Smiling Face</a>.</p>

<p>With its closed eyes, features an expression more intimate than <a href="/kissing-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😙&nbsp;Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes</a>&rsquo;s and <a href="/kissing-face/">😗&nbsp;Kissing Face</a>&rsquo;s.</p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/kissing-cat/">😽&nbsp;Kissing Cat Face</a>.</p>

Kissing Face with Closed Eyes

<p>A yellow face with smiling eyes and puckered lips giving a kiss. Commonly conveys sentiments of love and affection.</p>

<p>Like <a href="/kissing-face/">😗&nbsp;Kissing Face</a>, this emoji is sometimes taken to represent whistling, especially when paired with a <a href="/musical-note/">musical note</a>. May convey such feelings as surprise, admiration, contempt, or feigned innocence, as a person with hands in pocket casually whistling after wrongdoing, as if&nbsp;saying&nbsp;<em>Nothing to look at here</em>.</p>

<p>With its smiling eyes, this emoji generally features an expression fonder than <a href="/kissing-face/">😗&nbsp;Kissing Face</a>&#39;s&nbsp;but less intimate than <a href="/kissing-face-with-closed-eyes/">😚&nbsp;Kissing Face With Closed Eyes</a>&#39;s. Expect for on&nbsp;Huawei devices, where this emoji&#39;s lips are plump and red like the&nbsp;<a href="/kiss-mark">💋&nbsp;Kiss Mark</a> emoji.</p>

Kissing Face with Smiling Eyes

<p>A yellow face with open eyes, a thin closed-mouth smile, and a single tear falling from one of its eyes. Can be used to express a wide range of emotions and expressions&nbsp;including gratitude, tender happiness, an attempt to look happy when actually sad, or&nbsp;smiling through pain. Can also be a response to something that is bittersweet.</p>

<p>This emoji and <a href="/slightly-smiling-face/">🙂 Slightly Smiling Face</a> have a similar smile, and <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a> and <a href="/crying-cat/">😿 Crying Cat</a> have a similar lone tear. Not to be confused with&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face with Tears of Joy</a>, which has a wide toothy grin&nbsp;and tears coming from both eyes.</p>

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Smiling Face with Tear

<p>A yellow face with its right hand saluting. Used as a sign of respect.</p>

<p>The expression of the face of this emoji can vary across platforms, with some designs featuring a <a href="/neutral-face">neutral</a> face while others are shown smiling to various degrees.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Apple and Huewai&#39;s designs notably only display half a face, likely to make the saluting hand more prominent when this emoji is viewed in smaller sizes.</p>

<div id="professor_prebid-root">This emoji went viral across Twitter in late 2022 following the&nbsp;news that the platform would be dramatically reducing its staff numbers as part of a company-wide restructuring following its acquisition by Elon Musk. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/10-years-of-viral-emoji-moments/">Learn more here.</a></div>

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Saluting Face

<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 face that appears surrounded by clouds or a haze of smoke. Ambiguous in appearance, this may represent a foggy state of mind, confusion, or even a sense of calm bliss.</p>

<p>May also be used to indicate the presence&nbsp;of <a href="/420/">smoke</a>.</p>

Face in Clouds

<p>A face that appears to be shaking from side to side with its eyes and mouth open wide.</p>

<p>This emoji finds its origins in the comic book and cartoon trope of a shaking face. It can be used to express shaking from external forces like earthquakes, loud noises, or dinosaurs walking nearby. It can also be used to express shaking caused by strong emotions such as shock, fear, confusion, disbelief, anticipation, and excitement. Additionally it can represent dizziness, double takes,&nbsp;or double vision.</p>

Shaking Face

<p>A yellow face with tears welling up at the bottom of its two large eyes.</p>

<p>May be used to express a range of emotions including sadness, anger, embarrassment, admiration, and gratitude.&nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="/smiling-face-with-tear/">🥲 Smiling Face with Tear</a> and <a href="/pleading-face/">🥺 Pleading Face</a> can be used in some similar&nbsp;contexts.</p>

<div id="professor_prebid-root">Unlike other vendors, Huawei&#39;s design shows this emoji holding its hands expectantly against its cheeks.&nbsp;</div>

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Face Holding Back Tears

<p>A yellow face with raised eyebrows and a slight frown, shedding a single, blue tear from one eye down its cheek. May convey a moderate degree of sadness or pain, usually less intensely than <a href="/loudly-crying-face/">😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face</a>.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad but Relieved Face</a>, <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪&nbsp;Sleepy Face</a>, or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/crying-face/">previously featured</a> tears welling up in both eyes.</p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/crying-cat/">😿&nbsp;Crying Face</a>.</p>

Crying Face

<p>A yellow face with an open mouth wailing and streams of heavy tears flowing from closed eyes. May convey inconsolable grief&nbsp;but also other intense feelings, such as uncontrollable laughter, pride or overwhelming joy.</p>

<p>In March 2021,&nbsp;😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face became&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">the most popular emoji on Twitter</a>. It held this position until January 2022, when&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face with Tears of Joy</a> <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/tears-of-joy-just-about-returns-as-twitters-top-emoji/">returned as the top emoji on the platform</a>.</p>

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Loudly Crying Face

<p>The palm of a hand with the fingers spread apart. Held in a manner that may indicate the number five. Similar to <a href="/waving-hand/" title="👋 Waving Hand Sign">👋 Waving Hand</a>, but without any motion.</p>

Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed

<p>A hand held up showing its palm. May be used to mean <em>stop</em>, or as a high-five.</p>

Raised Hand

<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>Most commonly known as a ✌️&nbsp;Peace Sign, but traditionally called&nbsp;as a <em>Victory Hand.&nbsp;</em>Two&nbsp;fingers held up on one hand making a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign">V sign</a>.</p>

<p>The reverse of this symbol is considered an offence gesture in <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag For United Kingdom">British</a> culture, similar to giving the <a href="/middle-finger/" title="🖕 Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended">middle finger</a>.</p>


Victory Hand

<p>A fist displayed in a&nbsp;position to punch someone, or to fist-bump another person.</p>

<p>Shown as a right hand on all supported platforms. An equivalent left-handed version does not exist.</p>

Fisted Hand Sign

<p>Two hands clapping emoji, which when used multiple times can be used&nbsp;as a round of applause.</p>

Clapping Hands 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>Two hands forming a heart shape. Used to express love and support.</p>

<p>This emoji currently showns the heart being made through two hands being curved into a C-shape with their thumbs touching. This is stereotypically referred to as the &quot;Millennial Hand Heart&quot;.</p>

Heart Hands

<p>Two open hands, representing openness. Sometimes used as a <a href="/hugging-face/" title="🤗 Hugging Face">hug</a>, or as a display of <em>jazz hands</em>.</p>

Open Hands Sign

<p>Two hands performing a handshake gesture, indicating a&nbsp;cordial greeting between friends or associates.</p>

<p>As of late 2021&#39;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> recommendations, this emoji design has multiple <a href="/emoji-modifier-sequence/">skin tone modifier</a> options. Certain platforms did, however, support a small number of single skin tone options for the handshake emoji prior to 2021 (e.g. both <a href="/google/android-7.1/new/">Google</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/new/">Samsung</a> in 2017).&nbsp;<a href="/handshakes/">View all handshake emojis</a>.</p>

Handshake

<p>Two hands placed firmly together, meaning <i>please</i>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>thank you</em>&nbsp;in Japanese culture.&nbsp;A common alternative use&nbsp;for this emoji is for prayer, using the same gesture as&nbsp;praying hands. It can also represent&nbsp;a respectful greeting or show of adoration many in Southeast Asian religions and cultures, such as the Hindu <em>namaste</em> or Buddhist <em>a&ntilde;jali mudra</em>.</p>

<p>Rarely used as&nbsp;a&nbsp;high-five, despite often being suggested as one by emoji keyboard search features. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojiology-folded-hands/">More about this emoji and its possible meanings</a>.</p>

<p>A previous&nbsp;version of this&nbsp;emoji&nbsp;displayed a <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands on Apple iOS 6.0">yellow burst of light behind the two hands</a>&nbsp;on iOS. Android once&nbsp;showed a blob-character with <a href="/google/android-5.0/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands on Google Android 5.0">closed eyes and folded hands</a>.</p>

Person with Folded Hands

<p>A person with its&nbsp;hand in the air, as if it wants to ask or answer a question.</p>

<p>Generally displayed as a woman, but is not defined as one particular gender.&nbsp;Previously showed&nbsp;a blob-like gender-inclusive character&nbsp;in the Google artwork.</p>

Happy Person Raising One Hand

<p>The man version of the <a href="/person-raising-hand/">🙋&nbsp;Happy Person Raising One Hand</a> emoji.</p>

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