Smirking Face Emoji
Copy 😏 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 😏 mean?
A one-sided smile with half-lidded eyes. Suggestive, smug, or knowing.
😏 is the smirking face emoji. It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group, in the face neutral skeptical set, and was approved as part of Emoji 0.6.
People also search for it as boss, dapper, face, flirt, homie, kidding, leer, shade, slick, sly.
How to use 😏
Flirtatious in personal messages; in other contexts it signals “I know something you do not”. Rarely neutral.
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 :smirk: directly.
Good to know
Its persistent innuendo reading means it lands badly in professional messages, where it can seem to imply something unintended.
Technical details
| Name | Smirking Face |
|---|---|
| Character | 😏 |
| Codepoint | U+1F60F |
| HTML entity | 😏 |
| CSS code | \1F60F |
| Shortcode | :smirk: |
| Category | Smileys & Emotion |
| Subgroup | face neutral skeptical |
| Emoji version | Emoji 0.6 |
| Keywords | boss, dapper, face, flirt, homie, kidding, leer, shade, slick, sly, smirk, smug, snicker, suave, suspicious, swag |