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winking face

A winking face

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Code points: U+1F609
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Meaning

A face winking with a small smile — playfulness, a joke, or light flirtation.

Winking face — Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.

In conversation

Signals 'you know what I mean': inside jokes, light teasing, or cheeky flirting.

Tone

Playful and knowing.

Common uses

inside jokes
light teasing
cheeky flirting
saying 'gotcha'

Watch out

Its flirtation depends entirely on context — among colleagues it reads as just humor.

Examples

you know it 😉
gotcha 😉
see you later 😉

Also known as

winking facewink emoji

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Used in combos

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winking face + heart exclamation — flirty combo

winking face + two hearts — flirty combo

winking face + revolving hearts — flirty combo

winking face + beating heart — flirty combo

winking face + growing heart — flirty combo

winking face + sparkling heart — flirty combo

winking face + sparkles — flirty combo

winking face + glowing star — flirty combo

Related collections

Flirty309 Love3017 Cute1467

Emoji names around the world

English: winking faceالعربية وجه يغمز español cara guiñando el ojo português rosto com olho piscando हिन्दी आँख मारता चेहरा Indonesia wajah berkedip

Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.

Related kaomoji

giggling dog

singing dog

rolling on the floor laughing

laughing out loud

tongue-out funny face

giggling face

tongue out with nose

tongue out

Quick facts

Code points: U+1F609
Unicode name: winking face
Category: Smileys & EmotionSmiling faces
Unicode: 6.0 · 2010Emoji 0.6Unicode history
Keywords: face flirt heartbreaker sexy slide tease wink winking winks emoji meaning mean

Developer

Single code point

Unicode data

Code pointsU+1F609

Unicode namewinking face

UTF-8F0 9F 98 89

Shortcodes

Shortcode (Discord / GitHub / Slack):winking_face:

HTML & CSS

HTML (hex)😉

HTML (decimal)😉

CSS\1F609

Languages

JavaScript\u{1F609}

Python\U0001F609

Perl\x{1F609}

PHP / Ruby\u{1F609}

Encodings

Punycodexn--n28h

URL escape code%F0%9F%98%89

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Open-source artwork under commercially compatible licenses, shown with correct attribution. These are not Apple, Samsung or WhatsApp designs.

Noto Emoji — Licenses & attribution — **Noto Emoji**Google Fonts · SIL OFL 1.1

Twemoji — Licenses & attribution — **Twemoji**Twemoji project · CC BY 4.0

OpenMoji — Licenses & attribution — **OpenMoji**OpenMoji project · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Frequently asked

What does 😉 winking face mean?