U+263A

WHITE SMILING FACE

So — Other Symbol
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
9786

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent WHITE SMILING FACE in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 E2 98 BA 226 152 186 3
UTF-16 LE 3A 26 58 38 2
UTF-16 BE 26 3A 38 58 2
UTF-32 LE 3A 26 00 00 58 38 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 26 3A 0 0 38 58 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP not supported
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
☺
☺
\263A
\u263A
%E2%98%BA
\u263a
9786

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
E2
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
98
·
Byte 3
1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0
BA
UTF-8: E2 98 BA · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+263A

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
ON — Other Neutral

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