Smirking face emoji meaning

The smirking face emoji shows a face with a half-smile, raised eyebrows, and eyes that appear slightly squinted. This expression is often used to communicate feelings of self-satisfaction, smugness, or a sense that someone knows something others might not. It can also convey a playful or teasing attitude, making it popular in flirty or ironic conversations. People often use it to add a confident or cheeky tone to their messages. It has become a versatile emoji in digital communication, offering subtle layers of meaning depending on the context of its use.

The smirking face emoji is also known as Smirk Emoji.

The smirking face emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026