😝

Squinting Face with Tongue Emoji 😝

Squinting face with tongue laughs so hard both eyes disappear, tongue still hanging out mid-laugh. It's the exaggerated version of a wink-free tease, the reaction for something so ridiculous you can barely spit the joke out.

What 😝 means

The Squinting Face With Tongue emoji is a yellow face with squished in eyes, like in the 😆 Grinning Squinting Face, along with a wide-open, toothless mouth and a tongue sticking out.

Another emoji among the series of face-tongue emojis, 😝 suggests goofiness, silliness, fun, and all the innocent stuff. It can even suggest a mocking way of playfulness, or the famous phrase 'Just pulling your leg, haha'.

How and when to use it

  • When you're consciously trying to get on someone's nerve, use this emoji when they finally snap and say 'Just pulling your leg' (it can piss them off more, but that's up to you).
  • If someone sent something silly, you can use this as an emoji response.
  • This emoji works great to express a general air of goofiness.
  • Since the emoji has a tongue in it, it can be interpreted in more than one way.

Other Names

  • 😝 Tongue-Out Face
  • 😝 Goofy Face
  • 😝 Playful
  • 😝 Face With Stuck-Out Tongue and Tightly Closed Eyes
  • 😝 Tongue Out
  • 😝 Crazy
    😝 Madness

😝 in real conversations

What does 😝 mean from a friend?

Pure teasing — a joke landed and the tongue-out grin softens whatever was just said, the emoji version of 'kidding, mostly.' It shows up right after a jab at someone's expense, turning a comment that could sting into something clearly affectionate instead. Nobody sends 😝 while being serious.

Is 😝 flirty?

Not really, and that's the point — it reads as silly rather than suggestive, both eyes scrunched shut in a full goofy laugh rather than a knowing wink at one person. Save it for playful banter between friends or a partner being ridiculous, not for anything meant to land as smooth or seductive.

What's the difference between 😝 and 😜?

😜 winks with one eye, aiming the joke at someone specific — a nudge, a private tease, a little flirt built in. 😝 shuts both eyes and commits fully to the silliness, less 'just between us' and more 'I'm being completely ridiculous right now.' The wink makes 😜 personal; 😝 is just goofing around.

The lowdown

Category
Smileys & Emotion ‹ face-tongue
Codepoints
U+1F61D
Emoji version
Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes
:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
Keywords
closed, eye, eyes, face, gross, horrible, omg, squinting, stuck-out, taste, tongue, whatever, yolo

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.

squinting face with tongue on Apple
Apple
squinting face with tongue on Google
Google
squinting face with tongue on Twitter/X
Twitter/X
squinting face with tongue on Facebook
Facebook
squinting face with tongue on Microsoft
Microsoft

⚡ Quick round

Which joined the keyboard first — 😝 Squinting Face with Tongue or ðŸĶŠ Fox?

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