The face blowing a kiss is the digital equivalent of an air kiss—playful, affectionate, and sometimes a little chaotic. It says “mwah!” in one tiny heart, perfect for flirty DMs, sweet goodnights, or a breezy “thanks, bestie.” People also toss it in as a cheeky mic-drop—like after a spicy clapback or when you beat someone in a game: “gg 😘.” It can read tender or teasing depending on context, which is why it thrives in meme culture as the sarcastic “no hard feelings… right?” closer.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a sunny yellow face with one eye winking and the other eye open, puckered lips sending off a small bright-red heart that floats from the mouth at a slight angle. The shading is soft and glossy, with that unmistakable “animated sticker” vibe that makes the heart pop. It’s instantly recognizable next to its cousins: 😗 (no heart) and 😚 (eyes closed), making this one the flirty, heart-forward option. Think film-star air kiss, runway goodbye, or your Italian nonna’s “mwah” after feeding you too much pasta—now optimized for the group chat.
A face with winking eye, puckering lips, and floating heart. Winking and kissing… most often friendly but potentially mildly flirtatious. If a face had hands, this would have been named "blowing a kiss."
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 12 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture |  |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :kissing_heart: |
| Keywords | Kiss, Blowing Kiss, Heart, Love, Lips |
| Previous Names: | Face Throwing a Kiss |
| Unicode Category | Emoticons |
| Unicode Range | 1F600–1F64F |
| Unicode Subcategory | Faces |
| Unicode Category | Faces and Smiley's |
| Unicode Subcategory | Faces |
| Names & Annotations | FACE THROWING A KISS Temporary Notes: kiss |
| Symbol Information | U+1F618 proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-32C |
| DoCoMo | #Exp.27 'Heart shaped eyes' 目がハート 「目gahaato」 U+E726 SJIS-F9CB JIS-7876 |
| KDDI | #456 チュッ 「chiyutsu」 U+EACF SJIS-F3A3 JIS-7A25 |
| Softbank | #7 #old371 表情(投げキッス) 「表情(投gekitsusu)」 U+E418 SJIS-FB58 |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 4 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | |
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e418 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E418 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 58392 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x90 0x98 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 90 98 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 220 230 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE418 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e418 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 58392 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E418 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E418 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 58392 |
| Python Src | u"\uE418" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x90\x98" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE418" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 😘 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 😘 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 😘 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 😘 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f618 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F618 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128536 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0x98 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 98 98 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 230 230 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE18 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde18 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56856 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F618 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F618 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128536 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F618" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x98\x98" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE18" |
| Emoji Encoding | DoCoMo | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾌬 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾌬 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e726 | eacf | fe32c |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E726 | U+EACF | U+FE32C |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 59174 | 60111 | 1041196 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x9C 0xA6 | 0xEE 0xAB 0x8F | 0xF3 0xBE 0x8C 0xAC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 9C A6 | EE AB 8F | F3 BE 8C AC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 234 246 | 356 253 217 | 363 276 214 254 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE726 | 0xEACF | 0xDBB8 0xDF2C |
| UTF-16 Hex | e726 | eacf | dbb8df2c |
| UTF-16 Dec | 59174 | 60111 | 56248 57132 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E726 | 0x0000EACF | 0x000FE32C |
| UTF-32 Hex | E726 | EACF | 0FE32C |
| UTF-32 Dec | 59174 | 60111 | 1041196 |
| Python Src | u"\uE726" | u"\uEACF" | u"\U000FE32C" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x9c\xa6" | "\xee\xab\x8f" | "\xf3\xbe\x8c\xac" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE726" | "\uEACF" | "\uDBB8\uDF2C" |
