Face blowing a kiss

Blowing a kiss: affection, thanks or a warm goodbye. It can be romantic, but it is just as often a friendly “love you, bye.”

Common at the end of messages to partners, close friends and family, and as playful thanks for a favor. Between friends it is often casual, but from a stranger or colleague it can feel too intimate. Sarcastically, it can mean “bye, I'm done here.”

Facts

Face blowing a kiss 😘 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face affection. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :kissing_heart: or :face_blowing_a_kiss:. People also look for it with words like “adorbs”, “bae”, “blowing”, or “face”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

smileys & emotion · Unicode 6.0