Kissing face with closed eyes

A kiss with closed eyes and blushing cheeks. It shows tender, sincere affection rather than flirting.

Sent to partners, children and close family, often next to hearts like 💕. The closed eyes give it a sweet, shy feel, and it also works as a cute thank-you between close friends who share that kind of warmth.

Facts

Kissing face with closed eyes 😚 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_closed_eyes: or :kissing_face_with_closed_eyes:. People also look for it with words like “143”, “bae”, “blush”, or “closed”.

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