Just Kidding Emoji

Unicode names no emoji just kidding, so copy the wink with tongue out, a jk line or a typed face.

Just Kidding Emoji

😜Winking face with tongueU+1F61CReady to copy

71 items. Tap one to copy it.

Just kidding emoji 15

JK lines, light 9

Lines that take it back 8

Half kidding 6

Just kidding emoticons, typed 12

Letters only 10

Just kidding combos 11

Next step The winking emoji and what each wink meansNext: the smirk emoji

How it works

For a just kidding emoji, start with Winking face with tongue, U+1F61C. Under it are jk lines by tone, typed emoticons, the letters alone and combos.

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What CLDR files under kidding and joke

CLDR, the list of search words behind emoji keyboards, has no just kidding and no jk. It files kidding under one emoji, Smirking face, and joke under one, Winking face with tongue. Tease belongs to Winking face alone and goofy to Zany face. Sarcasm finds Melting face and the three people tipping a hand.

A just kidding smiley, as an emoticon

Typed sideways, it is :P. Wikipedia's list of emoticons gives the colon as the eyes of a face, swapped for a semicolon when it winks, and reads :P as tongue sticking out, cheeky or playful. So ;P does both at once.

  • Wiktionary lists jk, JK and j/k as the short forms of just kidding, and psych as a synonym.
  • /j is the tone indicator for joking and goes at the end of the message. /srs is its opposite.
  • None of these faces takes a skin tone.

Questions and answers

What is the just kidding emoji?

Unicode's emoji list, version 18.0, names no emoji just kidding. This page leads with 😜 Winking face with tongue, a wink with the tongue out, and puts 😏 Smirking face second.

What is the just kidding emoticon?

A colon and a capital P with jk in front: jk :P. The typed group has it with a nose, an equals sign and a small p, and puts jk beside XD and two upright faces.

Is there a jk emoticon?

No face is called jk. The letters are an initialism of just kidding, which Wiktionary marks as internet slang and text messaging, so pair them with a face: jk :P or jk ;).

Which emoji says just kidding after a joke lands badly?

The lines that take it back end on 🙃 Upside-down face, 😅 Grinning face with sweat and 🙈 See-no-evil monkey. CLDR files the sweating grin under nervous and the monkey under embarrassed.

All 71 items

Just kidding emoji 15

  • Cat with wry smile U+1F63C. The only emoji filed under ironic. Emoji 0.6.
  • Face with hand over mouth U+1F92D. The only emoji filed under whoops. Also filed under oops and giggle. Emoji 5.0.
  • Face with tears of joy U+1F602. Filed under lol, haha and funny. Emoji 0.6.
  • Face with tongue U+1F61B. Tongue out, no wink. Filed under stuck-out. Emoji 1.0.
  • Grinning face with sweat U+1F605. A grin with a bead of sweat. Filed under nervous. Emoji 0.6.
  • Joker U+1F0CF. The one emoji named joker. Filed under wildcard. Emoji 0.6.
  • Melting face U+1FAE0. Filed under sarcasm and sarcastic. Emoji 14.0.
  • See-no-evil monkey U+1F648. Filed under embarrassed and hide. Emoji 0.6.
  • Smiling face with halo U+1F607. The only emoji filed under innocent. Emoji 1.0.
  • Smirking face U+1F60F. The only emoji filed under kidding. Emoji 0.6.
  • Squinting face with tongue U+1F61D. Tongue out, eyes shut. Filed under stuck-out and whatever. Emoji 0.6.
  • Upside-down face U+1F643. A smile turned over. Filed under hehe. Emoji 1.0.
  • Winking face U+1F609. The only emoji filed under tease. Emoji 0.6.
  • Winking face with tongue U+1F61C. This page's lead, not Unicode's. The only emoji filed under joke. Emoji 0.6.
  • Zany face U+1F92A. The only emoji filed under goofy. Emoji 5.0.
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JK lines, light 9

  • Had you for a second 😏 With the smirk
  • jk jk 😝 Said twice
  • jk 😜 Two letters and the wink
  • Just kidding 😜 The plain one
  • JUST KIDDING 😜😜 Capitals, two winks
  • Just messing with you 😉 With the wink
  • Kidding, kidding ðŸĪŠ The word, twice
  • Only joking 😂 For a joke that landed
  • Pulling your leg 😜 The idiom for teasing

Lines that take it back 8

  • I take it back. Just kidding 🙃 Withdrawn in full
  • Ignore that. Jk 🙊 With the speak-no-evil monkey
  • Jk, do not be mad 🙈 With the see-no-evil monkey
  • Jk, I would never 😇 With the halo
  • Jk, you are doing great 😉 After teasing someone about their work
  • Just kidding, you know I love you âĪïļ For family and close friends
  • Kidding. That came out wrong 😅 When it sounded harsher than meant
  • Sorry, bad joke ðŸĪ­ The short apology

Half kidding 6

  • Half kidding 😏 Said outright
  • Jk. Or am I ðŸĪ” For keeping them guessing
  • jk... unless? 👀 The door left open
  • Just kidding. Mostly 🙃 Nine parts joke
  • Not kidding this time 😐 The opposite, with a straight face
  • Only half joking ðŸŦ  With the melting face

Just kidding emoticons, typed 12

  • jk (^_-) An upright wink
  • jk :-P With a nose
  • jk :P The letters, then the tongue
  • jk ;) The letters, then a wink
  • jk ;P A wink and the tongue
  • jk =P An equals sign for eyes
  • jk ^_^ A joyful face, upright
  • jk XD XD is a laughing face
  • just kidding :P Spelled out
  • kidding :p With a small p
  • :P Tongue out: cheeky or playful
  • ;P The same, with a wink

Letters only 10

  • brincadeira Just kidding in Brazilian Portuguese
  • /hj Tone indicator: half-joking
  • /j Tone indicator: joking
  • j/k With the slash
  • jk Small letters
  • jk jk Twice, for emphasis
  • jk lol With a laugh
  • (jk) As an aside
  • psych Said after fooling someone
  • sike A slang spelling of psych

Just kidding combos 11

  • Halo on Smiling face with halo, then winking face with tongue.
  • Jk, in two Winking face with tongue, then upside-down face.
  • Jk, love you Winking face with tongue, then red heart.
  • Jk, unless Winking face with tongue, then eyes.
  • Kidding, by the book Smirking face, then winking face with tongue. CLDR files kidding under the smirk and joke under the wink with its tongue out.
  • Laughing at my own joke Squinting face with tongue, then face with tears of joy.
  • Sarcasm, flagged Melting face, then winking face.
  • Straight face, dropped Neutral face, then winking face with tongue.
  • Tongue in cheek Face with tongue, then smirking face.
  • Wild card Joker, then winking face with tongue.
  • Wink and take it back Winking face, then upside-down face.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode names no emoji just kidding: every name in that list and every CLDR search word was searched for the phrase, for jk and for joking, and none was found. What CLDR does have: kidding on Smirking face alone, joke on Winking face with tongue alone, tease on Winking face alone, goofy on Zany face alone. Each emoji's note says which CLDR words it is filed under; which emoji lead the page is this site's choice. Just kidding as an informal way to say it was only a joke, its short forms jk, JK and j/k, and psych as a synonym are as Wiktionary gives them (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/just_kidding, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/j/k, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/psych, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sike, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated. The tone indicators /j and /hj are as in Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki///j, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki///hj) and Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_indicator). Brincadeira is glossed just kidding, for Brazil, in its own Wiktionary entry (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brincadeira) and stands in the translation table of the entry just kidding. What :P, ;), XD, ^_^ and (^_-) are read as, and the colon and semicolon as eyes, are from Wikipedia's list of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated. The lines, the typed faces with jk beside them, the combos and their names are this site's own work; nobody has standardised them. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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