U+1F61C "😜" Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Winking Eye Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
😜
U+1F61C "😜" Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Winking Eye is a pictographic symbol used in digital communication to convey a playful, cheeky, or joking tone. It combines a winking eye with a protruding tongue, visually representing the act of teasing, silliness, or saying “just kidding.” This character is part of the Emoticons block in Unicode 6.0, released in 2010, and is widely supported across platforms and operating systems. Its common colloquial name is the "winking face with tongue" emoji, and it is often employed in informal texts, social media posts, and chat messages to soften a statement or indicate lighthearted mischief.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F61C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Winking Eye |
| Block | Emoticons |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 😜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 😜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDE1C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F61C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\ude1c |