What is the Unicode name of 😂, the yellow face laughing with tears?

The Unicode name of 😂 is Face with Tears of Joy.

The emoji shows a smiling face with tears appearing at the outer corners of its eyes. Unicode assigns each standardized emoji a formal name so that the character can be identified independently of the artwork used by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, or other platforms. Those designs can differ in details such as mouth shape, eye style, and tear placement.

Face with Tears of Joy became especially famous in online communication because people use it for genuine amusement, comic exaggeration, and sometimes nervous or ironic laughter. In 2015, the Oxford Dictionaries named 😂 its Word of the Year, a notable milestone for a visual symbol rather than a conventional word.

It is often confused with 🤣, whose official name is Rolling on the Floor Laughing. The two suggest intense amusement, but they are distinct Unicode characters with different designs and code points. Unicode lists 😂 as U+1F602.