Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
😏Smirking Face Emoji
Basically, it means someone is trying to appear cool, confident, or a little bit cheeky. It’s often used to add a playful tone to a message.
Also searched as suspicious emoji, smirk emoji.
The 😏 emoji is a smirking face.
- Unicode
- U+1F60F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :smirk:
- Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #39 most used
01 — Meaning
What does the 😏 Smirking Face emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as suspicious emoji, smirk emoji, smug emoji, smirking emoji, smirk face emoji.
02 — Platforms
Smirking Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F60F. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Smirking Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :smirk:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F60F.
04 — How to type
How to type the 😏 Smirking Face emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Smirking Face emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Smirking Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around smirking face for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 😏, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 😏 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the smirking face and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 😏 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
11 — History
Where the 😏 Smirking Face emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F60F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
😏 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E72C, KDDI au EABF, SoftBank E402.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Smirking Face was approved as U+1F60F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 😏 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ