😝Squinting Face with Tongue Emoji
Basically, it means you’re feeling amused or playfully teasing. It’s a simple way to show you find something funny or cute.
The 😝 emoji, also known as the Squinting Face Tongue Out, is all about conveying a playful mood.
- Unicode
- U+1F61D
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😝 Squinting Face with Tongue emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Squinting Face with Tongue emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the squinting face with tongue as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Squinting 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_closed_eyes:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F61D.
How to type the 😝 Squinting Face with Tongue emoji
No picker to hand? The squinting face with tongue can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Squinting 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
Squinting Face with Tongue emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around squinting 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 squinting face with tongue and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 😝 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F61D, 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: 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.
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 😝 Squinting 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+1F61D 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 E409.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Squinting Face with Tongue was approved as U+1F61D 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.