Squinting face with tongue

Tongue out with eyes squeezed shut. It can be a playground-style “bleh” at someone, or a reaction to a gross taste.

Often sent as a teasing comeback or after a prank. When something is disgusting in a funny way, it gives a mock “yuck” without real offense.

Facts

Squinting face with tongue 😝 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face tongue. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: or :squinting_face_with_tongue:. People also look for it with words like “closed”, “eye”, “eyes”, or “face”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

smileys & emotion · Unicode 6.0