U+1F972 SMILING FACE WITH TEAR

The Unicode character U+1F972, officially named SMILING FACE WITH TEAR, was introduced in Unicode version 13.0. It is part of the Sup Symbols And Pictographs block, which belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has wide in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

As an officially designated emoji, this character can be displayed in colorful graphical formats on supported platforms. To explicitly request the colorful emoji presentation rather than a standard monochrome text symbol, developers can append the Variation Selector-16 (U+FE0F) directly after the character.