U+1F60C · emoji since 2010
The relieved face is a calm, contented exhale. Eyes closed, soft smile, the feeling of finally letting your shoulders drop after a long day.
People use it for peace, gratitude, and a quiet sense of all is well. It can also carry a smug little hint when something goes exactly your way.
In texting, 😌 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 😌 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Relieved Face emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the relieved face emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 😌 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.