What does the face with tongue emoji mean?

The face with tongue emoji depicts a yellow face with small, open eyes and a big grin, playfully sticking out its tongue. Can variously convey a sense of fun, excitement, silliness, cuteness, happiness, or jesting, as if saying Just kidding! Generally less goofy than <%= link_to "winking face with tongue", emoji_path("winking-face-with-tongue") %> and less animated than <%= link_to "squinting face with tongue", emoji_path("squinting-face-with-tongue") %>. Google previously featured a more defeated expression and Samsung, a more mocking one. Because of its stuck-out tongue, note that this smiley may be applied or interpreted in suggestive ways. This emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.1 in 2012 under the name 'Face with Stuck-Out Tongue' and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

How to use the face with tongue emoji?

Copy and paste 😛 into your messages, e.g., Just kidding! 😛. It works on most platforms.

What is the Unicode code for face with tongue?

The Unicode code point for 😛 is U+1F61B.

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😛 "face with tongue" emoji (copy and paste)

😛

face with tongue

A yellow face with small, open eyes and a big grin, playfully sticking out its tongue.

Meaning of the face with tongue Emoji

The face with tongue emoji depicts a yellow face with small, open eyes and a big grin, playfully sticking out its tongue. Can variously convey a sense of fun, excitement, silliness, cuteness, happiness, or jesting, as if saying Just kidding! Generally less goofy than winking face with tongue and less animated than squinting face with tongue. Google previously featured a more defeated expression and Samsung, a more mocking one. Because of its stuck-out tongue, note that this smiley may be applied or interpreted in suggestive ways. This emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.1 in 2012 under the name 'Face with Stuck-Out Tongue' and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Usage Examples

Just kidding! 😛
Feeling silly today 😛
That was fun 😛
Poking fun at you 😛
Excited and playful 😛

Alternative Names

face with tongue, stuck out tongue, playful face, silly tongue, jesting face

Related Word Associations

face, tongue, stuck-out, fun, excitement, silliness, cuteness, happiness, jesting

Appearance in OpenMoji

Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the 😛 face with tongue emoji for cross-platform use:

PNG format:

SVG format:

SVG (vector)

Unicode Data

Code Point(s):: U+1F61B
Version:: Emoji E1.0

Developer Codes

Shortcode (Discord)	`:stuck_out_tongue:`
Shortcode (GitHub)	`:stuck_out_tongue:`
Shortcode (Slack)	`:stuck_out_tongue:`
HTML Dec	`😛`
HTML Hex	`😛`
CSS	`\01F61B`
C, C++ & Python	`\U0001f61b`
Java, JavaScript & JSON	`\uD83D\uDE1B`
Perl	`\x{1F61B}`
PHP & Ruby	`\u{1F61B}`
Punycode	`xn--128h`
URL Escape Code	`%F0%9F%98%9B`

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