☺

☺

1. A smiling face; used to indicate happiness or amusement.

   Michael: Are you coming round this evening?
   Michelle: Yes, of course ☺

   John: I downloaded it seven minutes after they released it!!!
   Jonathan: lol! you need to get out more… ☺

The Unicode symbol is rarely used in practice as the :) and :-) forms are easier to type, while programs that display smilies will often use custom images as this allows more flexibility. However, some of those programs may automatically replace ☺ with a custom image, such as social networks' emoji implementations.

• :-)
• ☻ (rare)

• ☹
• :-(