The first two entities of Alt Code characters are smiley faces. It's, for sure, a nice beginning. If you are using a Microsoft Operating System, then typing them is a piece of cake.
I stumbled upon this while dictating a text message to my daughter. You can use Siri on iPhone 4s to dictate emoticons in your text! I even tested this in the Notes app, so very likely this will work anywhere text can be dictated. Use the OS X emoji keyboard. The Mac has a built-in emoji keyboard that you can call up anytime. How to type a Smiley face by using its Alt Code value ☺☻ Make sure you switch on the NumLock, press and hold down the Alt key, type the Alt Code value of the Smiley face 1 on the numeric pad. I find that emojis, those little character faces and symbols that you always see in texts, are a bit confusing for a lot of people on the Mac. How do you insert them? It’s not nearly as straightforward as it is on the iPhone or iPad, where a simple keyboard switch (which is labeled with a smiley face, no less!) will get you into emoji-land.
Emoticon, Smiley
Description
Alt Code
☺
White Smiley Face
1
☻
Black Smiley Face
2
How to type a Smiley face by using its Alt Code value ☺☻
Make sure you switch on the NumLock,
press and hold down the Alt key,
type the Alt Code value of the Smiley face 1 on the numeric pad,
release the Alt key and you got a ☺ White Smiley Face.
** Above mentioned procedure is not aplicable for MacOS.
** You can copy&paste Smiley faces anywhere you like.
For more information on how to use symbols, emojis please check our How to use Alt-Codes? page.
Emoticons, Smiley Faces with Unicode
Emoticons are the pictorial expressions of emotions and smiley faces are the most famous of them. There are hundreds of emoticons on Unicode library and new ones are being added each year. Below you can find the list of more than 150 emoticons. You can copy&paste them anywhere you like, or you can use their Unicode or HTML Code values on your web page design, or computer programing.
