Squinting Face With Tongue Emoji

What does the Squinting Face With Tongue emoji mean?

The Squinting Face With Tongue emoji (😝) depicts a squinting face with tongue and belongs to the Smileys & Emotion category of the Unicode emoji standard. It is a widely recognised symbol that works across modern devices and platforms. Unicode maps this character to U+1F61D and it first shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). The code point ensures the same underlying meaning even though visual art varies by vendor. In everyday chat this face is used to set tone — softening a request, signalling humour, or making a short reply feel warm instead of blunt. It frequently appears in messaging apps, comment threads, and social captions where emotional clarity matters. On Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and other vendors the artwork differs slightly — colour palette, shading, and line weight change — but the core concept of squinting 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 (:squinting-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 squinting face with tongue — it conveys that idea faster than words while keeping the message friendly and scannable.

How to use the Squinting Face With Tongue emoji

• In chat: Drop 😝 into a sentence where you would normally write “squinting 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 :squinting-face-with-tongue: when the raw character may be escaped or unsupported.

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