Winking face

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Shortcode: :wink:
Shortcode: :winking_face:
Unicode: U+1F609
HTML: 😉
CSS: \1F609
JavaScript: "\u{1F609}"
URL: %F0%9F%98%89

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What 😉 means

A wink: a joke, a hint, or a bit of flirting. It tells the reader not to take the line at face value, or that there is a secret both people share.

Common after teasing, playful suggestions and inside jokes. With a crush it reads as flirty; from a colleague it can feel odd, so many people avoid it at work. Next to an innuendo, it makes the double meaning clear.

Facts

Winking face 😉 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face smiling. 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 :wink: or :winking_face:. People also look for it with words like “face”, “flirt”, “heartbreaker”, or “sexy”.