smiley

Summary

smiley ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,254 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• smiley is credited with the discovery of Harvey Ball^[2].
• smiley's image is recorded as Smiley.svg^[3].
• smiley's image is recorded as Rally to Restore Sanity Photo 2010 Shankbone.jpg^[4].
• smiley's image is recorded as SNice.svg^[5].
• smiley's image is recorded as Smiley 1741 Hennet.jpg^[6].
• smiley's image is recorded as DrawingForBeginners20.jpg^[7].
• smiley's image is recorded as A smiley face balloon from a Gregory FUNNY-B'LOONS ad on page 20 of The Billboard March 18 1922.jpg^[8].
• smiley's image is recorded as NYHT Smiley 10th March 1953.jpg^[9].
• smiley's image is recorded as Smiley Regensburg 3.jpg^[10].
• smiley's depicts is recorded as face^[11].
• smiley's depicts is recorded as smile^[12].
• smiley's subclass of is recorded as emoticon^[13].
• smiley's subclass of is recorded as illustration^[14].
• smiley's Commons category is recorded as Smilies^[15].
• smiley's Unicode character is recorded as ☺^[16].
• smiley's Unicode character is recorded as ☻^[17].
• smiley's Unicode character is recorded as 🙂^[18].
• smiley's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06n05^[19].
• smiley's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Smilies^[20].
• smiley's Commons gallery is recorded as Smiley^[21].
• smiley's topic has template is recorded as Template:Smiley^[22].
• smiley's different from is recorded as :)^[23].
• smiley's different from is recorded as :3^[24].
• smiley's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as smiley-informatik^[25].
• smiley's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID is recorded as tgm009750^[26].

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Works and Contributions

smiley is credited with the discovery of Harvey Ball^[2]. Things named for smiley include Smiley Award^[27], an award^[28], founded in 2006^[29].

Why It Matters

smiley ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,254 views/month).^[1] smiley has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] smiley is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]

Entities named for smiley include Smiley Award^[27], an award^[28], founded in 2006^[29].