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😗Kissing Face Emoji
Unicode added 😗 kissing face in Emoji 1.0 (2015), filed under Smileys & Emotion → Affectionate. Its codepoint is U+1F617, and it is tagged 143, date and dating.
What 😗 kissing face means
Affection emoji carry romance, but most of their traffic is platonic: 🥰 on a friend's selfie, 😍 under a photo of someone's dog, 😘 as a sign-off between people who are not dating. Smiling face with hearts joined Unicode in 2018 and now does much of the warm-compliment work heart-eyes handled alone from 2010.
Unicode tags this one 143, date and dating and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Affectionate.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F617 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 😗 | |
| HTML decimal | 😗 | |
| CSS | \1F617 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F617} | |
| Python | \U0001F617 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDE17 | |
| Rust | \u{1f617} | |
| Swift | \u{1F617} | |
| PHP | \u{1F617} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%98%97 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 98 97 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DE17 | |
| Base64 | 8J+Ylw== | |
| Decimal | 128535 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
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How to type 😗
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “kissing face”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “143”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f617and Enter. - HTML — paste
😗.
How 😗 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 😗Apple
- 😗Segoe
- 😗Noto
- 😗System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 😗 kissing face emoji mean?+
😗 is the kissing face emoji, tagged 143, date and dating. Affection emoji carry romance, but most of their traffic is platonic: 🥰 on a friend's selfie, 😍 under a photo of someone's dog, 😘 as a sign-off between people who are not dating. Smiling face with hearts joined Unicode in 2018 and now does much of the warm-compliment work heart-eyes handled alone from 2010.
What is the Unicode code for 😗?+
kissing face is U+1F617. In HTML that is 😗, in CSS \1F617, and in JavaScript \u{1F617}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 😗 emoji added?+
kissing face got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Affectionate in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😗 kissing face.