What does the kissing face emoji mean?

The kissing face emoji depicts a yellow face with simple, open eyes and puckered lips giving a kiss. Commonly conveys sentiments of love and affection. Like <%= link_to "kissing face with smiling eyes", emoji_path("kissing-face-with-smiling-eyes") %> and <%= link_to "kissing face with closed eyes", emoji_path("kissing-face-with-closed-eyes") %>, this is one of the less intimate kissing emojis, with eyes that are less romantic. May also represent whistling or duck face. This emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.1 in 2012 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

How to use the kissing face emoji?

Copy and paste 😗 into your messages, e.g., Sending you a kiss 😗. It works on most platforms.

What is the Unicode code for kissing face?

The Unicode code point for 😗 is U+1F617.

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😗 "kissing face" emoji (copy and paste)

😗

kissing face

A yellow face with simple, open eyes and puckered lips giving a kiss.

Meaning of the kissing face Emoji

The kissing face emoji depicts a yellow face with simple, open eyes and puckered lips giving a kiss. Commonly conveys sentiments of love and affection. Like kissing face with smiling eyes and kissing face with closed eyes, this is one of the less intimate kissing emojis, with eyes that are less romantic. May also represent whistling or duck face. This emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.1 in 2012 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Usage Examples

Sending you a kiss 😗
Whistling a tune 😗
Love you 😗
Good morning kiss 😗
Nothing to see here 😗

Alternative Names

kissing face, kiss, pucker face, whistling face, simple kiss

Related Word Associations

face, kiss, affection, love, pucker, whistle, duck face

Appearance in OpenMoji

Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the 😗 kissing face emoji for cross-platform use:

PNG format:

SVG format:

SVG (vector)

Unicode Data

Code Point(s):: U+1F617
Version:: Emoji E1.0

Developer Codes

Shortcode (Discord)	`:kissing:`
Shortcode (GitHub)	`:kissing:`
Shortcode (Slack)	`:kissing:`
HTML Dec	`😗`
HTML Hex	`😗`
CSS	`\01F617`
C, C++ & Python	`\U0001f617`
Java, JavaScript & JSON	`\uD83D\uDE17`
Perl	`\x{1F617}`
PHP & Ruby	`\u{1F617}`
Punycode	`xn--z28h`
URL Escape Code	`%F0%9F%98%97`

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