All smileys in this list work on both self-hosted WordPress and WordPress.com websites (as long as smileys haven’t been disabled in the site admin, anyway).
To include a graphic smiley, type a colon immediately before and after the text. Make sure there’s a space immediately before and after, so the WordPress software sees it as a smiley.
For detailed info, see theย Using Smilies page in the WordPress Codex.
๐ – smile
๐ – grin
๐ – sad
๐ฎ – eek
๐ฏ – shock
๐ – ???
๐ – cool
๐ก – mad
๐ – razz
๐ – neutral
๐ – wink
๐ – lol
๐ณ – oops
๐ฅ – cry
๐ฟ – evil
๐ – twisted
๐ – eyeroll
โ – !
โ – ?
๐ก – idea
โก – arrow
– mrgreen
Not built in to WordPress, but should be
???? โ 💩 (this is a hex code; just copy and paste the text into the WordPress post editor in Text (not Visual) view.