😉 Winking Face emoji

Copy the 😉 Winking Face emoji (U+1F609), a Smileys & Emotion emoji from Emoji 0.6 (2010). HTML 😉 and CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes.

CLDR name: winking face
Code point: U+1F609
Type: Single code point
Group: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Face smiling
Introduced: Emoji 0.6 (2010)
Keywords: face, flirt, heartbreaker, sexy, slide, tease, wink, winking, winks

About this emoji

😉 Winking Face is an emoji in the Smileys & Emotion group, face smiling subgroup, first released in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the label Unicode gives to characters that became emoji with Unicode 6.0 in 2010, before emoji had version numbers of their own.

CLDR, the Unicode project that supplies emoji names in many languages, gives it the English keywords face, flirt, heartbreaker, sexy, slide, tease, wink, winking and winks; that is what emoji keyboards match when you search.

It is a single code point, U+1F609, named WINKING FACE in the Unicode standard.

Codes to copy

HTML decimal	`😉`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`😉`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\1F609";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\uD83D\uDE09"`Also valid in JSON. Characters above U+FFFF are written as a surrogate pair.
JavaScript (ES6)	`"\u{1F609}"`Code point escape; not valid in JSON.
Python	`"\U0001f609"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{WINKING FACE}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%F0%9F%98%89`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 89`4 bytes.
UTF-16	`D83D DE09`2 code units, which is what JavaScript length counts.

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