U+1F440 "👀" Eyes Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
👀
U+1F440 "👀" Eyes is a pictographic representation of a pair of open, forward-facing eyes, typically rendered as cartoonish white orbs with black pupils and small eyebrows. Originally introduced as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and later added to the Emoji 1.0 set, this character is widely used in digital communication to convey a range of meanings, including the act of looking, observing, or paying close attention. It can express curiosity, suspicion, or a silent demand for an explanation, as in the phrase "I see what you did there," or serve as a playful nudge to draw someone’s focus to a specific detail or event.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F440 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Eyes |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 👀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 👀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F440 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc40 |