150+ Emoji Face Symbols with Meaning

Emojis are there for 30 years and the smartphone apps make them easy to use for everyone of us. You can see young people chatting in WhatsApp, WeChat and Messenger apps only using emojis. All operating systems like Windows, macOS, iOS and Android have emoji keyboard or equivalent apps to quickly insert relevant symbols.

Emoji Face Symbols or Smileys

Unicode character encoding defines numerical code point for each emojis and introduces new emojis with every release. Though the latest Unicode emoji version has more than 1000 symbols many of us use only few emojis frequently. In earlier days, people use emoticons or text emojis to type smileys. For example, typing :-) in most of the applications will convert it into a smiling face emoji symbol like ☺. The popularity grown into such a level that now you have more than 150 face emoji symbols available under different category making the choice difficult.

Choosing Correct Emoji Face Symbols

The biggest problem with choosing face emojis is to understand the correct meaning of the symbol. Every mobile and desktop application focuses on offering more emoji symbols within a small space. Some desktop applications like Character Map in Windows and Character Viewer in Mac also includes thousands of other Unicode symbols in a single app. However, they all miss an important point of explaining the meaning of those symbols.

People choose wrong emoji to express their feelings and opinions confusing others in the conversation. Therefore, here is an attempt to collect all available emoji faces in Unicode with their meaning and alternate names.

Emoji Face Symbols with Meaning

Below is a complete list of 150+ emoji face symbols with meaning. We have also categorized the symbols based on the expression or style so that you can pickup the correct symbol. You can use the search box to filter the relevant results. For example, type “think” in the search box to instantly filter thinking face emoji ?. After finding the emoji, you can copy and paste on your chat conversation, emails and documents.

Alternatively, you can also do reverse emoji search by pasting the face emoji in the search box to find the name. For example, paste this ?in the search box to find its name as “Face blowing a kiss” emoji.

Note, that some symbols may show like square boxes in browser. However, you can view the colorful emoji on your online chat window. The above table will show the emojis based on the browser you use. The actual display on the app may be different based on the encoding used by that app.