Winking Face Emoji
What does the Winking Face emoji mean?
Bright yellow winking emoji with an open mouth and a subtle smile. A good fit for playful, flirtatious, or affectionate messages — or to signal a joke or a wink-and-nod, hinting at a hidden meaning.
A round yellow face with a small, closed-mouth smile and the left eye playfully squinted. This emoji can signal a light flirtation, a positive note, or a subtle joke. Depending on the context, it sets the tone—adding a touch of playfulness or gentle irony to the conversation.
This friendly emoji is similar in meaning to the smiley face with a slight grin. The squinted eye, often drawn like a parenthesis, conveys approval and understanding. People frequently use it instead of words like 'good', 'accepted', or 'agreed'. It's commonly called the 'winking' face or the 'smiley with a closed eye'.
Also Known As
- 😉 Wink
- 😉 Wink Face
- 😉 Winky Face
Apple Name
- 😉 Winking Face
Unicode Name
- 😉 Winking Face
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Winking Face emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
😉 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F609
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%98%89 |
| Punycode | xn--n28h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 98 89 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDE09 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f609 |
| CSS | \01F609 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F609} |
| Perl | \x{1F609} |
| HTML hex | 😉 |
| HTML dec | 😉 |
Tags: face, wink, winking face, flirt, heartbreaker, sexy, slide, tease, winking, winks
Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Happy faces