😜Winking Face With Tongue Emoji

Tagged crazy, epic and eye, 😜 winking face with tongue sits in Unicode's With Tongue group inside Smileys & Emotion. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F61C.

What 😜 winking 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 crazy, epic and eye 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+1F61C`
HTML hex	`😜`
HTML decimal	`😜`
CSS	`\1F61C`
JavaScript	`\u{1F61C}`
Python	`\U0001F61C`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE1C`
Rust	`\u{1f61c}`
Swift	`\u{1F61C}`
PHP	`\u{1F61C}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%98%9C`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 9C`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE1C`
Base64	`8J+YnA==`
Decimal	`128540`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

crazy
epic
eye
face
funny
joke
loopy
nutty
party
stuck-out
tongue
wacky
weirdo
wink
winking
yolo

Appears in these collections

How to type 😜

Windows — press Win + . and search “winking face with tongue”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “crazy”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f61c 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 😜 winking face with tongue emoji mean?+

😜 is the winking face with tongue emoji, tagged crazy, epic and eye. 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 😜?+

winking face with tongue is U+1F61C. In HTML that is 😜, in CSS \1F61C, and in JavaScript \u{1F61C}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 😜 emoji added?+

winking face with tongue got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Unicode 6.0 (2010)

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