Face savoring food is what you send when a bite is too good to react to quietly — eyes shut, tongue swiping a corner of the mouth. It works just as well for anything else that hits exactly right, from a good meal to a plan finally coming together.
What 😋 means
A yellow-faced emoji with happy eyes and a big, closed smile with a tongue sticking out from a corner.
The Face Savouring Food emoji is used to express a sense of deliciousness in any foodie context. It is essentially used to represent anything that is yummy, tasty, and all the food-related adjectives.
How and when to use it
- You can use this emoji while sending a picture of something incredibly amazing you just cooked.
- You can use this as an emoji response to an enticing picture or video you just watched.
- This emoji can basically be used to react to something gastronomical.
- You can also use this emoji to show that you're hungry.
Other Names
- 😋 Yummy
- 😋 Appetite
- 😋 Hungry Face
- 😋 Smiley Face Licking Lips
😋 Tongue Out
😋 Happy Food Face
😋 in real conversations
What does 😋 mean?
Delicious — literally licking its lips over food, but stretched to cover anything satisfying: a good meal, a win, a plan coming together nicely. "Can't wait for tacos 😋" is the textbook use.
Is 😋 flirty?
It can be, in the "you look good enough to eat" sense — sent under a photo it reads as playful appreciation rather than a food reaction. Context (a plate vs. a selfie) makes the call.
What does 😋 mean in texting?
Satisfaction, mostly about food but exportable to anything that hits the spot. It carries a cheeky, self-satisfied energy — closer to "yum" said with a grin than a neutral compliment.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-tongue
- Codepoints
U+1F60B- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:yum:- Keywords
- delicious, eat, face, food, full, hungry, savor, smile, smiling, tasty, um, yum, yummy
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Pairs well with
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⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 😋 Face Savoring Food or 🏙️ Cityscape?