Eyes Emoji
Copy 👀 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 👀 mean?
A pair of eyes looking sideways. Signals watching, noticing, or being intrigued by something.
👀 is the eyes emoji. It belongs to the People & Body group, in the body parts set, and was approved as part of Emoji 0.6.
People also search for it as body, eye, face, googly, look, looking, omg, peep, see, seeing.
How to use 👀
Posted alone as a reaction to gossip, a teaser, or something suspicious. Also used sincerely to mean “I am reviewing this” — common in workplace Slack.
Click the copy button above to put 👀 on your clipboard, then paste it anywhere Unicode is supported — WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Slack, email, or a document. On Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :eyes: directly.
Good to know
GitHub adopted it as a convention meaning “someone is looking at this issue”, which spread into engineering culture generally.
Technical details
| Name | Eyes |
|---|---|
| Character | 👀 |
| Codepoint | U+1F440 |
| HTML entity | 👀 |
| CSS code | \1F440 |
| Shortcode | :eyes: |
| Category | People & Body |
| Subgroup | body parts |
| Emoji version | Emoji 0.6 |
| Keywords | body, eye, face, googly, look, looking, omg, peep, see, seeing |