👁️

Eye Emoji 👁️

Wide open and unblinking, a single realistic eye sits alone, drawn without any face around it. It's used for watching, suspicion, and paying close attention — 'I see you' energy — and shows up in the deadpan 👁️👄👁️ combo for reacting to something wild without typing out a single word.

What 👁️ means

A single human eye that seems like its shooting death stares. The design and overall finish of this emoji would vary across different platforms.

The 👁️ Eye emoji signifies looking, staring, witnessing, and observing. In some superstitious contexts, this emoji can also refer to the 'Evil Eye'; a perpetrator of misfortune and bad luck. However, it can also suggest the 'Good Eye'; of having exceptional observation skills.

How and when to use it

If you witnessed something that your friends and you are now discussing, use 👁️ in that conversation.
👁️ also refers to ophthalmology. So, if you're going to see the eye doc, use this emoji in that conversation.
If you're talking about 'having an eye' on someone or something to someone close, use 👁️ while texting about it.
👁️ can be used as a reaction to something that was inspiring, so much that it 'opened your eyes' (well, eye, in this case. But still works).
If you're looking for someone or something and you're hinting about it to someone you're texting, use 👁️ in that context.
If someone or you have a 'good eye' for something, use 👁️ to suggest that in a particular conversation.

Other Names

👁️ Looking
👁️ Staring
👁️ Watching
👁️ Evil Eye
👁️ Good Eye
👁️ I'm Watching You
👁️ Witness
👁️ Single Eye
👁️ Inspired
👁️ Reality Check
👁️ Awake
👁️ Woke

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › body-parts
Codepoints: U+1F441 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :eye: GitHub
Keywords: 1, body, eye, one

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.