Winking Face emoji
Type :wink: · #24 most-used emoji · Smileys & emotion
Unicode name Winking Face · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What 😉 means
The wink marks the joke, the hint or the shared secret. Use with intent: it can turn any sentence flirtatious, which is either the point or the problem.
If you are trying to read into it
The wink marks a joke, a hint, or a shared understanding. It is the emoji most likely to turn a neutral sentence flirtatious, which is why it goes wrong so often in work chats and with people you do not know well. If you are trying to work out whether a wink meant something, look at whether the sentence makes sense as a joke without it. If it does, that is what it was.
How to type 😉 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :wink
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 😉 from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:wink: :winking_face: Emoticon trigger
Typing ;) followed by a
space becomes 😉 automatically.
😉 in HTML, CSS and code
Winking Face is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F609
- HTML
- 😉
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F609}'
- CSS content
- "\1F609"
- Python
- '\U0001F609'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%98%89
Related emojis
:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: 😘 :blowing_a_kiss: 😗 :kissing: 😚 :kissing_closed_eyes: 😙 :kissing_face_with_smiling_eyes: 😏 :smirk: 😀 :grinning: 😃 :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: 😄 :grinning_face_with_closed_eyes: 😁 :beaming_face: All smileys & emotion shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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