Face with tongue Emoji

Smileys

A yellow face with its eyes squeezed shut and its tongue poked out, capturing a look of goofy excitement or lighthearted mischief.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for sending a playful tease, signaling you are joking, or reacting to something silly. It is frequently used to soften a sarcastic comment, ensuring the recipient knows it was said in good fun rather than with malice. It shares a similar vibe with 😜 or 😝, though it is slightly less intense than those variations.

History

Part of the original set of emoticons that helped transition early internet slang from text-based characters like :-P into the graphical world. It became a standard inclusion in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 as part of the broader effort to standardize facial expressions across diverse mobile operating systems.

Details

Glyph

😛

Unicode

U+1F61B

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f61b:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE1B;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-tongue

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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