What does 😝 mean?
A squinting face with tongue out: being silly, teasing, 'blehh'.
Its official Unicode name is FACE WITH STUCK-OUT TONGUE AND TIGHTLY-CLOSED EYES and its CLDR short name is "squinting face with tongue" (in Hungarian: "arc kilógó nyelvvel és erősen behunyt szemmel"). It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group and was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- closed
- eye
- eyes
- face
- gross
- horrible
- omg
- squinting
- stuck-out
- taste
In Hungarian: arc, borzasztó, kiöltött nyelv, lehunyt szem, szmájli, szörnyű íz
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws 😝 in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F61D. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- FACE WITH STUCK-OUT TONGUE AND TIGHTLY-CLOSED EYES
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- arc kilógó nyelvvel és erősen behunyt szemmel
- English name (CLDR)
- squinting face with tongue
- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- Group
- Smileys & Emotion · face tongue
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
Related emojis
Frequently asked questions
What does the 😝 emoji mean?
A squinting face with tongue out: being silly, teasing, 'blehh'.
How do I type the 😝 emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "closed".
When was the 😝 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010), so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.