😛Face with Tongue Emoji
Generally, 😛 means someone is being playful and a little silly. It’s a way to show you’re having fun and not serious.
Also searched as tongue out emoji
The 😛 emoji, also known as “Face Tongue Out,” shows a face with a tongue sticking out.
- Unicode
- U+1F61B
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :stuck_out_tongue:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😛 Face with Tongue emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 8 of them.
People also look for it as cool emoji, tongue out emoji, tongue stuck out emoji, stuck out tongue emoji, cool face emoji.
Face with Tongue emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the face with 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.
Face with Tongue emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :stuck_out_tongue:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the face with tongue, code point U+1F61B.
How to type the 😛 Face with Tongue emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Face with 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
Face with Tongue emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around face with 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
Who sent the face with tongue and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 😛 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the face with tongue lands changes how it is taken.
😛 vs 😝 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Face with Tongue
Code: U+1F61B · added 2015
Shortcode: :stuck_out_tongue:
Generally, 😛 means someone is being playful and a little silly.
Unicode name: Squinting Face with Tongue
Code: U+1F61D · added 2010
Shortcode: :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
Basically, it means you’re feeling amused or playfully teasing.
Where the 😛 Face with Tongue emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the face with tongue has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F61B 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.
Face with Tongue was approved as U+1F61B and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.
People wrote it as
:p, :-p, :P, :-P back when messages were plain text. Most keyboards still convert those automatically.