Face With Tongue Emoji

What does the Face With Tongue emoji mean?

Represented by the character 😛, the Face With Tongue emoji is classified under Smileys & Emotion. It captures the idea of face with tongue in a single, cross-platform glyph that readers understand at a glance. Technically it is encoded at Unicode code point U+1F61B and was added in Emoji 1.0 (2015), so every up-to-date system can display and exchange it reliably. People reach for this smiley when they want to show feeling rather than describe it. It helps prevent misreads: a sentence that could sound cold becomes friendly once paired with this face, and a joke lands more clearly with the right expression attached. On Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and other vendors the artwork differs slightly — colour palette, shading, and line weight change — but the core concept of face with tongue stays identical, so the emoji remains universally readable. You can copy this emoji as the character itself (😛), as an HTML entity (😛), or as a shortcode (:face-with-tongue:) for platforms like Slack, Discord, and GitHub.

This detailed meaning was written by the UseEmoji editorial team after reviewing Unicode CLDR data and real-world usage. For quick identification, think of this emoji as shorthand for face with tongue — it conveys that idea faster than words while keeping the message friendly and scannable.

How to use the Face With Tongue emoji

• In chat: Drop 😛 into a sentence where you would normally write “face with tongue” to add tone and visual interest.
• On social media: Pair 😛 with a keyword or hashtag to make captions more searchable and expressive.
• In documents and code: Use the HTML entity 😛 or shortcode :face-with-tongue: when the raw character may be escaped or unsupported.

Technical details & cross-platform notes

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