Kissing Face Emoji
Pursed lips and plain eyes, used as the whistle emoji and for a light kiss.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Kissing Face emoji mean?
Pursed lips and plain eyes, used as the whistle emoji and for a light kiss.
Innocent with a hint of mischief. Most people read it as whistling, often while pretending nothing happened.
How to use 😗 naturally
Whistling innocently, humming along or a casual kiss. It has no heart, so it is the least romantic kissing face.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 😗
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Kissing Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A round face with pursed lips and open eyes, added in 2015. Unicode has no whistling face, and this one filled the gap because pursed lips look the same whether you are kissing or whistling.
- Today
How its use evolved
Whistling innocently, humming along or a casual kiss. It has no heart, so it is the least romantic kissing face.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 😗 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Who ate the last biscuit? Not me 😗
Humming this song all day 😗
Walking away from that conversation 😗
When to use it
Using 😗 clearly
Whistling innocently, humming along or a casual kiss. It has no heart, so it is the least romantic kissing face. It lands as whistle emoji or whistling emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the kissing face emoji
What does 😗 mean in a text message?
Pursed lips and plain eyes, used as the whistle emoji and for a light kiss. Innocent with a hint of mischief. Most people read it as whistling, often while pretending nothing happened.
Is 😗 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are whistle emoji, whistling emoji, 😗 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😗 look different on another device?
U+1F617 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the kissing face emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 😗 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the kissing face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 😗 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
😗 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F617 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 😗 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 😗 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F617 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F617} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%97 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F617
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- whistle emojiwhistling emoji😗 meaning
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