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Last reviewed on May 7, 2026
The Beaming Face symbol (😁) is one of the emoticons and smileys characters in the AllSymbols catalog. It comes from the Unicode Emoticons block (U+1F600–U+1F64F), introduced in Unicode 6.0. These are colored emoji faces, distinct from the older text-style smileys built from punctuation like :-) and ;-).
The same emoji can render very differently across platforms because each vendor draws the code point with its own house style. The meaning is the same; the personality changes. This is the reason a smile that looks warm on one phone can look slightly off on another.
In Unicode, Beaming Face sits at code point U+1F601. Web pages reference it with the HTML numeric entity 😁; CSS rules reference it as a quoted hex escape (the four-digit code prefixed with a backslash); in JavaScript and most modern source-code contexts you can either paste the literal character or use a Unicode escape with the same hex digits.
Face emoji do not take skin-tone modifiers — they are designed as color-neutral yellow. People emoji (waving hand, thumbs up, runner) do support tone modifiers from the Fitzpatrick scale.
If Beaming Face isn’t quite what you need, the Emoticons and Smileys page lists every related character on the site — including White Smiling Face and Downcast Face with Sweat. The related-symbols grid below also surfaces the closest sibling characters.