What does the winking face with tongue emoji mean?

The winking face with tongue emoji depicts a yellow face sticking out its tongue and making a zany wink, usually shown with its right eye closed and left wide open. Often conveys a sense of fun, excitement, wackiness, buffoonery, or joking. Generally goofier than <%= link_to "face with tongue", emoji_path("face-with-tongue") %> and <%= link_to "squinting face with tongue", emoji_path("squinting-face-with-tongue") %> but less 'crazy' than <%= link_to "zany face", emoji_path("zany-face") %>. This emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name 'Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Winking Eye' and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

How to use the winking face with tongue emoji?

Copy and paste 😜 into your messages, e.g., Just joking around 😜. It works on most platforms.

What is the Unicode code for winking face with tongue?

The Unicode code point for 😜 is U+1F61C.

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😜 "winking face with tongue" emoji (copy and paste)

😜

winking face with tongue

A yellow face sticking out its tongue and making a zany wink, usually shown with its right eye closed and left wide open.

Meaning of the winking face with tongue Emoji

The winking face with tongue emoji depicts a yellow face sticking out its tongue and making a zany wink, usually shown with its right eye closed and left wide open. Often conveys a sense of fun, excitement, wackiness, buffoonery, or joking. Generally goofier than face with tongue and squinting face with tongue but less 'crazy' than zany face. This emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name 'Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Winking Eye' and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Usage Examples

Just joking around 😜
Feeling wacky today 😜
That was fun! 😜
Poking fun 😜
Excited and goofy 😜

Alternative Names

winking face with tongue, zany wink, playful wink tongue, goofy wink, buffoonery face

Related Word Associations

face, wink, tongue, fun, excitement, wackiness, buffoonery, joking, goofy

Appearance in OpenMoji

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

PNG format:

SVG format:

SVG (vector)

Unicode Data

Code Point(s):: U+1F61C
Version:: Emoji E0.6

Developer Codes

Shortcode (Discord)	`:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:`
Shortcode (GitHub)	`:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:`
Shortcode (Slack)	`:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:`
HTML Dec	`😜`
HTML Hex	`😜`
CSS	`\01F61C`
C, C++ & Python	`\U0001f61c`
Java, JavaScript & JSON	`\uD83D\uDE1C`
Perl	`\x{1F61C}`
PHP & Ruby	`\u{1F61C}`
Punycode	`xn--238h`
URL Escape Code	`%F0%9F%98%9C`

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