How To Choose The Perfect Emoticon

Emoticons are pretty fun to use but they are hard to choose because there are so many!

Here is how to make it easy: go over this list and then use search to find the noun or verb that you are looking for like “triumph” or “savouring” or “unamused”

Even if you don’t have anything to search for, it is still in alphabetical order and it is pretty fun to see all eighty faces out there available right now!

Face Name
Angry Face 😠
Anguished Face 😧
Astonished Face 😲
Cat Face with Tears of Joy 😹
Cat Face with Wry Smile 😼
Confounded Face 😖
Confused Face 😕
Crying Cat Face 😿
Crying Face 😢
Disappointed But Relieved Face 😥
Disappointed Face 😞
Dizzy Face 😵
Expressionless Face 😑
Face Savouring Delicious Food 😋
Face Screaming in Fear 😱
Face Throwing A Kiss 😘
Face Without Mouth 😶
Face with Cold Sweat 😓
Face with Look of Triumph 😤
Face with Medical Mask 😷
Face with No Good Gesture 🙅
Face with Ok Gesture 🙆
Face with Open Mouth 😮
Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat 😰
Face with Rolling Eyes 🙄
Face with Stuck-Out Tongue 😛
Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Tightly-Closed Eyes 😝
Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Winking Eye 😜
Face with Tears of Joy 😂
Fearful Face 😨
Flushed Face 😳
Frowning Face with Open Mouth 😦
Grimacing Face 😬
Grinning Cat Face with Smiling Eyes 😸
Grinning Face 😀
Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes 😁
Happy Person Raising One Hand 🙋
Hear-No-Evil Monkey 🙉
Hushed Face 😯
Kissing Cat Face with Closed Eyes 😽
Kissing Face 😗
Kissing Face with Closed Eyes 😚
Kissing Face with Smiling Eyes 😙
Loudly Crying Face 😭
Neutral Face 😐
Pensive Face 😔
Persevering Face 😣
Person Bowing Deeply 🙇
Person Frowning 🙍
Person Raising Both Hands in Celebration 🙌
Person with Folded Hands 🙏
Person with Pouting Face 🙎
Pouting Cat Face 😾
Pouting Face 😡
Relieved Face 😌
See-No-Evil Monkey 🙈
Sleeping Face 😴
Sleepy Face 😪
Slightly Frowning Face 🙁
Slightly Smiling Face 🙂
Smiling Cat Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes 😻
Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth 😺
Smiling Face with Halo 😇
Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes 😍
Smiling Face with Horns 😈
Smiling Face with Open Mouth 😃
Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat 😅
Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Smiling Eyes 😄
Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Tightly-Closed Eyes 😆
Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes 😊
Smiling Face with Sunglasses 😎
Smirking Face 😏
Speak-No-Evil Monkey 🙊
Tired Face 😫
Unamused Face 😒
Upside-Down Face 🙃
Weary Cat Face 🙀
Weary Face 😩
Winking Face 😉
Worried Face 😟

Addendum 2019-02-03

Just learned that there is a difference between Emoticons (aka Emoji) and Unicode characters. The difference comes down to whether or not your operating system understands what to do with it. Even if you have a font that can display the character, it is up to the operating system whether it will show it to you or not. For example in macOS, it will display the “SUPERHERO” 🦸 character in TextEdit, but not in WhatsApp. That choice by the operating system seems to be the difference between the two. Whatever the case, all of the characters listed here are plain old Unicode characters that will display everywhere you’ve got a font that includes them.

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