😉Winking Face Emoji

😉 winking face is encoded at U+1F609 and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Smileys & Emotion → Smiling, alongside 13 related emojis.

What 😉 winking face means

The default reaction set: acknowledgement, warmth, a laugh at something that was only mildly funny. These do most of the light social work in a chat. Tone has drifted, though - plenty of younger users read the plain 🙂 as clipped or passive-aggressive rather than friendly, so it now lands closer to a raised eyebrow than a smile.

Unicode tags this one face, flirt and heartbreaker and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Smiling.

Copy variants

Different presentations of the same character — useful when a platform renders one form and not the other.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F609`
HTML hex	`😉`
HTML decimal	`😉`
CSS	`\1F609`
JavaScript	`\u{1F609}`
Python	`\U0001F609`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE09`
Rust	`\u{1f609}`
Swift	`\u{1F609}`
PHP	`\u{1F609}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%98%89`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 89`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE09`
Base64	`8J+YiQ==`
Decimal	`128521`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

face
flirt
heartbreaker
sexy
slide
tease
wink
winking
winks

Appears in these collections

How to type 😉

Windows — press Win + . and search “winking face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “face”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f609 and 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 😉 winking face emoji mean?+

😉 is the winking face emoji, tagged face, flirt and heartbreaker. The default reaction set: acknowledgement, warmth, a laugh at something that was only mildly funny. These do most of the light social work in a chat. Tone has drifted, though - plenty of younger users read the plain 🙂 as clipped or passive-aggressive rather than friendly, so it now lands closer to a raised eyebrow than a smile.

What is the Unicode code for 😉?+

winking face is U+1F609. In HTML that is 😉, in CSS \1F609, and in JavaScript \u{1F609}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 😉 emoji added?+

winking face got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😉 winking face.