eyes
Hands and gestures
What it means when sent
A pair of eyes. It means “I'm watching” or “look at this”, and it is most often a marker that someone is following along.
- Code point
- U+1F440
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
Gestures split by country: the same picture is praise in one place and an insult in another. Each entry says where.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere — it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
- Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (🙃, 😅).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare 👍 reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking — they are usually stripped from the result.
- Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.
Common questions
QWhat does 👀 mean?
A pair of eyes. It means “I'm watching” or “look at this”, and it is most often a marker that someone is following along.
QWhat is its official name?
Unicode calls it eyes, code point U+1F440. It sits under Hands and gestures.
QDoes it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes — though every vendor draws it slightly differently.