U+1F638 was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). It belongs to the block Emoticons in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F638 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
On Youtube this character is sometimes wrongly displayed as U0001f638
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The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
An emotion icon, better known by the portmanteau emoticon (/Ι¨ΛmoΚtΙ¨kΙn/) is a metacommunicative pictorial representation of a facial expression that, in the absence of body language and prosody, serves to draw a receiver's attention to the tenor or temper of a sender's nominal non-verbal communication, changing and improving its interpretation. It expresses β usually by means of punctuation marks (though it can include numbers and letters) β a person's feelings or mood, though as emoticons have become more popular, some devices have provided stylized pictures that do not use punctuation.
In Western countries, emoticons are usually written at a right angle to the direction of the text. Users from Japan popularized a kind of emoticons called kaomojis (ι‘ζε, often confused with emojis in the West) that can be understood without tilting one's head to the left. This style arose on ASCII NET of Japan in 1986.
As social media has become widespread, emoticons have played a significant role in communication through technology. They offer another range of "tone" and feeling through texting that portrays specific emotions through facial gestures while in the midst of text-based cyber communication.
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 128568 |
UTF-8 | F0 9F 98 B8 |
UTF-16 | D8 3D DE 38 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 F6 38 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%98%B8 |
HTML-Escape | 😸 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΒΒΒΈ |
Property | Value |
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Age (age) | 6.0 |
Unicode Name (na) | GRINNING CAT FACE WITH SMILING EYES |
Unicode 1 Name (na1) | β |
Block (blk) | Emoticons |
General Category (gc) | Other Symbol |
Script (sc) | Common |
Bidirectional Category (bc) | Other Neutral |
Combining Class (ccc) | Not Reordered |
Decomposition Type (dt) | None |
Decomposition Mapping (dm) |
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Lowercase (Lower) | β |
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
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Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
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Uppercase (Upper) | β |
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
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Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
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Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
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Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
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Case Folding (cf) |
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ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | β |
Alphabetic (Alpha) | β |
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | β |
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | β |
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) |
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Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
Cased (Cased) | β |
Composition Exclusion (CE) | β |
Case Ignorable (CI) | β |
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | β |
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) | β |
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) | β |
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) | β |
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) | β |
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) | β |
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) | β |
Dash (Dash) | β |
Deprecated (Dep) | β |
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | β |
Diacritic (Dia) | β |
East Asian Width (ea) | Neutral |
Extender (Ext) | β |
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
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Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | β |
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | β |
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | β |
Hex Digit (Hex) | β |
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
Hyphen (Hyphen) | β |
ID Continue (IDC) | β |
Ideographic (Ideo) | β |
ID Start (IDS) | β |
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | β |
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | β |
InMC (InMC) | β |
Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | β |
Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
Join Control (Join_C) | β |
Jamo Short Name (JSN) | β |
Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
Line Break (lb) | Ideographic |
Logical Order Exception (LOE) | β |
Math (Math) | β |
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) | β |
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) | Yes |
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) | Yes |
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) |
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NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Yes |
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | Yes |
Numeric Type (nt) | None |
Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) | β |
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) | β |
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) | β |
Other ID Continue (OIDC) | β |
Other ID Start (OIDS) | β |
Other Lowercase (OLower) | β |
Other Math (OMath) | β |
Other Uppercase (OUpper) | β |
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | β |
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | β |
Quotation Mark (QMark) | β |
Radical (Radical) | β |
Sentence Break (SB) | Other |
Simple Case Folding (scf) |
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Script Extension (scx) | Common |
Soft Dotted (SD) | β |
STerm (STerm) | β |
Terminal Punctuation (Term) | β |
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | β |
Variation Selector (VS) | β |
Word Break (WB) | Other |
White Space (WSpace) | β |
XID Continue (XIDC) | β |
XID Start (XIDS) | β |
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) | β |
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) | β |
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) | β |
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) | β |