👅Tongue Emoji
Generally, the 👅 emoji means someone is thinking about food, taste, or wants to lick something. It’s often a playful or suggestive way to express desire.
The 👅 emoji represents a tongue.
- Unicode
- U+1F445
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :tongue:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 👅 Tongue emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
People also look for it as lick emoji.
Tongue emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the tongue has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Tongue emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :tongue:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F445.
How to type the 👅 Tongue emoji
No picker to hand? The tongue can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Tongue emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Tongue emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around tongue for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👅, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👅 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 👅 means in other countries
Reads as flirtatious or sexual almost everywhere online, especially next to fruit emoji like eggplant or peach.
Standard flirt signal, often paired with 💦 or 🍑 to imply something explicit.
Also used alone for “delicious” or silly excitement, no sexual read intended.
Almost never reads as innocent here — it carries the flirt meaning by default.
Before you send it: Save it for people you’re actually flirting with; for “yum” use a tongue-out face instead.
What 👅 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F445, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
👅 vs 😛 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Tongue
Code: U+1F445 · added 2010
Shortcode: :tongue:
Generally, the 👅 emoji means someone is thinking about food, taste, or wants to lick something.
Unicode name: Face with Tongue
Code: U+1F61B · added 2015
Shortcode: :stuck_out_tongue:
Generally, 😛 means someone is being playful and a little silly.
Where the 👅 Tongue emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F445 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👅 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E728, KDDI au EB47.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Tongue was approved as U+1F445 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👅 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.