😜Winking Face with Tongue Emoji
Basically, it means you're joking around and having a good time. It’s a way to signal that you’re not being completely serious.
The 😜 emoji, also known as the Winking Face Tongue, is all about playful fun.
- Unicode
- U+1F61C
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😜 Winking Face with Tongue emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 16 of them.
People also look for it as crazy emoji, wink tongue out emoji, wink eye emoji, crazy face emoji, wink tongue emoji, winking tongue out emoji.
Winking Face with Tongue emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F61C. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Winking Face with 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 :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:.
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+1F61C.
How to type the 😜 Winking Face with Tongue emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Winking Face with Tongue emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the winking face with tongue as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Winking Face with Tongue emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around winking 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.
Winking Face with Tongue Emoji Kitchen stickers
Mixed with other emojis by Google's Kitchen — 14 of those stickers exist for the winking face with tongue. Tap any to open it full size.
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 on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F61C, 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: Winking Face with Tongue
Code: U+1F61C · added 2010
Shortcode: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Basically, it means you're joking around and having a good time.
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 😜 Winking Face with 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+1F61C 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 E4E7, SoftBank E105.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Winking Face with Tongue was approved as U+1F61C 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.
People wrote it as
;p, ;-p, ;b, ;-b back when messages were plain text. Most keyboards still convert those automatically.