Smirking face
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- Shortcode
:smirk:- Shortcode
:smirking_face:- Unicode
U+1F60F- HTML
😏- CSS
\1F60F- JavaScript
"\u{1F60F}"- URL
%F0%9F%98%8F
What ๐ means
A sly, knowing smirk. It hints at flirting, innuendo, smugness or a secret the sender is enjoying.
Common in flirty messages and suggestive jokes, and to show pride in a clever move. Most people read it as suggestive, so it rarely belongs in work chat.
Facts
Smirking face ๐ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face neutral skeptical. 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 :smirk: or :smirking_face:. People also look for it with words like โbossโ, โdapperโ, โfaceโ, or โflirtโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
2026
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.