😉 "winking face" emoji (copy and paste)
winking face
A yellow face with a slight smile or open mouth shown winking, usually with its left eye.
Meaning of the winking face Emoji
The winking face emoji depicts a yellow face with a slight smile shown winking, usually the left eye. May signal a joke, flirtation, hidden meaning, or general positivity. Tone varies, including playful, affectionate, suggestive, or ironic. Not to be confused with the more mischievous or sexual smirking face. An emoji form of the ;) emoticon. This emoji is commonly used to add a playful or teasing tone to messages. It was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Usage Examples
- You know what I mean 😉
- Just kidding 😉
- See you later 😉
- That's our little secret 😉
- Nice one 😉
Alternative Names
winking face, wink, playful wink, flirt face, joke face
Related Word Associations
joke, flirtation, hidden meaning, positivity, playful, affectionate, suggestive, ironic, mischievous, sexual, emoticon, face, wink
Appearance in OpenMoji
Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the 😉 winking face emoji for cross-platform use:
PNG format:
SVG format:
Unicode Data
- Code Point(s):
- U+1F609
- Version:
- Emoji E0.6
Developer Codes
| Shortcode (Discord) | :wink: |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :wink: |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :wink: |
| HTML Dec | 😉 |
| HTML Hex | 😉 |
| CSS | \01F609 |
| C, C++ & Python | \U0001f609 |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83D\uDE09 |
| Perl | \x{1F609} |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F609} |
| Punycode | xn--n28h |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%98%89 |
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