U+1F618
😘 Face blowing a kiss
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Subcategory
- Affectionate Faces
- Also known as
- face throwing a kiss
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 6.0 (2010)
- Emoji version
- 0.6 (2010)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the 😘 emoji means
A winking face sending a heart from its lips. Romantic in the right context; elsewhere simply a warm goodbye to a friend or a thank-you to family.
Warms up a message that would otherwise land flat. In cultures where a kiss between friends is unremarkable it passes unnoticed; in a work chat it does not.
Chat examples
Will your readers see 😘
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 😘 emoji is used
The 😘 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how face blowing a kiss is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 😘 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | face blowing a kiss |
|---|---|
| Русский | воздушный поцелуй |
| Deutsch | Kuss zuwerfendes Gesicht |
| Español | cara lanzando un beso |
| Français | visage envoyant un bisou |
| Polski | twarz przesyłająca całusa |
| Dansk | kyssende ansigt |
| Українська | обличчя, що надсилає цілунок |
| Português | rosto mandando um beijo |
Unicode CLDR 48