😛Face With Tongue Emoji

😛 is the face with tongue emoji, U+1F61B, one of 6 in the With Tongue set. It arrived with Emoji 1.0 (2015) and is commonly used for awesome, cool and face.

What 😛 face with tongue means

Playful, greedy, or deliberately unhinged: sticking a tongue out softens a joke that might otherwise read as rude, and 😋 doubles as the standard reply to a photo of food. 🤪 zany face arrived in 2017 and became shorthand for chaotic energy, while 🤑 money-mouth face is used sarcastically far more often than about actual money.

Unicode tags this one awesome, cool and face and files it under Smileys & Emotion → With Tongue.

Copy variants

Different presentations of the same character — useful when a platform renders one form and not the other.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F61B`
HTML hex	`😛`
HTML decimal	`😛`
CSS	`\1F61B`
JavaScript	`\u{1F61B}`
Python	`\U0001F61B`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE1B`
Rust	`\u{1f61b}`
Swift	`\u{1F61B}`
PHP	`\u{1F61B}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%98%9B`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 9B`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE1B`
Base64	`8J+Ymw==`
Decimal	`128539`
Introduced	Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Keywords

awesome
cool
face
nice
party
stuck-out
sweet
tongue

Appears in these collections

How to type 😛

Windows — press Win + . and search “face with tongue”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “awesome”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f61b and Enter.
HTML — paste 😛.

How 😛 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

😛Apple
😛Segoe
😛Noto
😛System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 😛 face with tongue emoji mean?+

😛 is the face with tongue emoji, tagged awesome, cool and face. Playful, greedy, or deliberately unhinged: sticking a tongue out softens a joke that might otherwise read as rude, and 😋 doubles as the standard reply to a photo of food. 🤪 zany face arrived in 2017 and became shorthand for chaotic energy, while 🤑 money-mouth face is used sarcastically far more often than about actual money.

What is the Unicode code for 😛?+

face with tongue is U+1F61B. In HTML that is 😛, in CSS \1F61B, and in JavaScript \u{1F61B}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 😛 emoji added?+

face with tongue got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😛 face with tongue.