Face Savoring Food Emoji
A smile with the tongue out over the lip, meaning delicious — or pleased with yourself.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Face Savoring Food emoji mean?
A smile with the tongue out over the lip, meaning delicious — or pleased with yourself.
Pleased and a bit smug. It means delicious with food and self-satisfied without it, and the second reading is easy to miss if you only expect the first.
How to use 😋 naturally
Food photos, meal plans and a cheeky reaction to something going your way.
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 😋
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Face Savoring Food was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A tongue licking the corner of the mouth with one eye winking. The tongue is placed off-centre on purpose, mid-lick rather than stuck out.
- Today
How its use evolved
Food photos, meal plans and a cheeky reaction to something going your way.
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.
First roast of the autumn 😋
Got the last one before closing 😋
This sauce is genuinely good 😋
When to use it
Using 😋 clearly
Food photos, meal plans and a cheeky reaction to something going your way. It lands as face savoring food 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 face savoring food emoji
What does 😋 mean in a text message?
A smile with the tongue out over the lip, meaning delicious — or pleased with yourself. Pleased and a bit smug. It means delicious with food and self-satisfied without it, and the second reading is easy to miss if you only expect the first.
Is 😋 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are face savoring food, 😋 meaning, yum emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😋 look different on another device?
U+1F60B 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 face savoring food 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 face savoring food emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 😋 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. 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+1F60B | 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 | \1F60B | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F60B} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%8B | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F60B
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- face savoring food😋 meaningyum emoji
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