A yellow smiley face with soft, closed eyes, raised eyebrows, and a slight smile.

Can be used to convey various pleasant feelings, including contentment, calm, peace, and relief. May also express happiness or good-natured humor more generally, or playful smugness.

Facebook’s design features a slightly open mouth, as if sighing. Google and Microsoft previously included sweat beads. Not to be confused with 😔 Pensive Face, which has similarly shaped eyes but a more downcast expression.

This emoji predates the inclusion and standardization of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by SoftBank in 2000.

Relieved Face was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.