Drooling Face Emoji
Drool running from the corner of the mouth, meaning something looks extremely good.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Drooling Face emoji mean?
Drool running from the corner of the mouth, meaning something looks extremely good.
Openly wanting something. It is comic exaggeration rather than a real reaction, and it works for objects and plans as readily as for food.
How to use 🤤 naturally
Food photos, wish lists and anything you badly want.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 🤤
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Drooling Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Saliva escaping one corner of the mouth. It covers hunger, desire and sleep, since all three produce the same drawing.
- Today
How its use evolved
Food photos, wish lists and anything you badly want.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🤤 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
That menu is dangerous 🤤
Look at the size of it 🤤
Saved to my wish list 🤤
When to use it
Using 🤤 clearly
Food photos, wish lists and anything you badly want. It lands as drooling face emoji or 🤤 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the drooling face emoji
What does 🤤 mean in a text message?
Drool running from the corner of the mouth, meaning something looks extremely good. Openly wanting something. It is comic exaggeration rather than a real reaction, and it works for objects and plans as readily as for food.
Is 🤤 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are drooling face emoji, 🤤 meaning, drool emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🤤 look different on another device?
U+1F924 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the drooling face emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🤤 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the drooling face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🤤 as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🤤 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F924 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🤤 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤤 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F924 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F924} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%A4 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F924
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- drooling face emoji🤤 meaningdrool emoji
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