😂 Face with Tears of Joy
Also known as: Laughing, Laughing Crying, Laughing Tears, LOL
Description
A yellow face with a big grin, uplifted eyebrows, and smiling eyes, each shedding a tear from laughing so hard. Widely used to show something is funny or pleasing. Named the Oxford Dictionaries 2015 Word of the Year, and the most used emoji on all platforms from 2011-2021. Briefly overtaken as the top emoji on Twitter in 2021 by 😭 Loudly Crying Face, though as of January 2022 it has reclaimed its top position on the platform. See also: 🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing which expresses more intense laughter; or cat variant: 😹 Cat Face With Tears of Joy.
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| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :face_with_tears_of_joy: | |
| GitHub | :joy: | |
| Slack | :joy: | |
| Discord | :joy: |
Additional Information
A laughing emoji which at small sizes is often mistaken for being tears of sadness. This emoji is laughing so much that it is crying tears o http://emojipedia.org/face-with-tears-of-joy/
- Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness
- Full of or producing joy
- Feeling or causing joy.
- Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
- Marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
- Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
- Arousing laughter.
- Of or pertaining to laughter
- Being funny, whimsically amusing.
- Arousing or provoking laughter
- Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
- Funny; amusing; comical.
- Produce laughter
- Show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds.
- To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
- To express pleasure, mirth or derision by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to produce laughter.
- To laugh out loud.
- To cry; shed tears.
- Shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
- Intransitive: to weep.
- To shed tears due to the impact of an emotion.
- To shed tears; to weep.
- To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.
- To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.
- Part of the body at the front of the head
- The face is a central organ of sense and is also very central in the expression of emotion among humans and among numerous other species.
- Faces are the central sense organ complexes, for those animals that have one, normally on the ventral surface of the head.
- The front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
- The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
- A high-pitched, silly laugh.
- A foolish or nervous laugh
- A single tear (clear, salty liquid secreted by the eye).
- A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
- A clear, salty liquid produced by the lacrimal gland in the eye, whose normal function is to clean and lubricate the eyes; its production is increased when the eye is irritated, or when yawning, laughing or crying.
- A drop of liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
- A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands