The face with tongue emoji shows a face with open eyes and its tongue sticking out of an open mouth. It signals playfulness, silliness, or teasing — often paired with a joke or lighthearted jab to make clear a comment isn't meant seriously, similar to a verbal "just kidding."
What 😛 means
This emoji is designed with a yellow face and two round, open eyes with an open, toothless mouth and a tongue sticking out from it.
The 😛 Face With Tongue emoji is generally used in a light conversation - to show goofiness, playfulness, and maybe even to seem friendly. This emoji can have numerous connotations, but the most basic and obvious one is that related to innocence, childishness, laid-back, and carefree.
How and when to use it
- If you just said something rude and you didn't mean it, back that text up with a 'JK' (Just Kidding) and send 😛.
- You can use this to seem playful in a conversation.
- The Face With Tongue emoji can also be used to act cool over text and not uptight.
- Since there's a tongue out here, use the emoji wisely as it can be interpreted in a lot of ways.
Other Names
- 😛 Goofy Face
- 😛 Cute Face
- 😛 Playful
- 😛 Just Kidding
- 😛 Tongue Out
- 😛 Happy Dog Face
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-tongue
- Codepoints
U+1F61B- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:stuck_out_tongue:- Keywords
- awesome, cool, face, nice, party, stuck-out, sweet, tongue
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 😛 Face with Tongue or ♣️ Club Suit?