😗Kissing Face Emoji
Generally, 😗 means someone is expressing a sweet or affectionate feeling. It’s a quick way to say “I like you” or “that’s cute.
The kissing face emoji (😗) shows two lips pressed together.
- Unicode
- U+1F617
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :kissing:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😗 Kissing Face emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 12 of them.
Kissing Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the kissing face has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Kissing Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :kissing:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the kissing face, code point U+1F617.
How to type the 😗 Kissing Face emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F617 when there is no key at all.
Kissing Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the kissing face as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Kissing Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around kissing face for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
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.
What 😗 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 😗 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F617, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
😗 vs 😙 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Kissing Face
Code: U+1F617 · added 2015
Shortcode: :kissing:
Generally, 😗 means someone is expressing a sweet or affectionate feeling.
Unicode name: Kissing Face with Smiling Eyes
Code: U+1F619 · added 2015
Shortcode: :kissing_smiling_eyes:
Generally, 😙 means someone is expressing affection, like they think you're cute or that they like you a little.
Where the 😗 Kissing Face emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the kissing face has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F617 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.
Kissing Face was approved as U+1F617 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.