The silly face emoji is 🤪 Zany face, U+1F92A: one eye large, one small, tongue out. After it come the other tongue-out faces, the two emoji Unicode's search words file under silly, text faces such as :P, and combos.
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Which tongue-out face is which
Unicode keeps six faces in its face-tongue group. Face with tongue has both eyes open. Winking face with tongue winks, Squinting face with tongue shuts both eyes, and Zany face has one eye bigger than the other. The other two are about food and money. Unicode's own note on the winking and squinting ones is three words long: kidding, not serious.
What is filed under silly
CLDR, the list of search words behind emoji keyboards, gives silly to two emoji: Ghost and Goose. Goofy and zany both lead to Zany face and nothing else.
Shaking face and Goose arrived in Emoji 15.0. A phone that has not had an update since shows an empty box.
Where emoji are refused, :P does the same job in two keys, and XP shuts the eyes.
Questions and answers
What is the silly face emoji called?
Zany face, added in Emoji 5.0. Its formal Unicode name is Grinning face with one large and one small eye, and it is the only emoji filed under goofy or under zany.
Is there a funny faces emoji?
Three emoji carry the search word funny: Rolling on the floor laughing, Face with tears of joy and Winking face with tongue. People who type funny faces emoji mostly want the tongue-out ones, which open this page.
How do you type a silly face with a keyboard?
A colon and a capital P make :P, read sideways as a face with its tongue out. A hyphen adds a nose, :-P. The letter X shuts the eyes, XP. The upright ones, such as (^q^), use a q for the tongue.
What does the upside-down face mean?
Unicode names it Upside-down face and adds no note. CLDR gives it four search words, face, hehe, smile and upside-down, which is as close to a meaning as the standard goes.
All 52 silly faces
The silly faces 6
😛Face with tongueU+1F61B. The plain one: eyes open, tongue out. CLDR lists party and sweet for it. Emoji 1.0.
🫨Shaking faceU+1FAE8. A face blurred by shaking, and one of four emoji CLDR files under crazy. New in Emoji 15.0, so an older phone shows an empty box. Emoji 15.0.
😝Squinting face with tongueU+1F61D. Eyes shut tight, tongue out. Unicode gives it the same note as the winking one: kidding, not serious. Emoji 0.6.
😜Winking face with tongueU+1F61C. A wink with the tongue out. The only emoji CLDR files under wacky, weirdo or joke, and one of three under funny. Unicode's note on it reads kidding, not serious. Emoji 0.6.
🤪Zany faceU+1F92A. The silly face: one eye large, one small, tongue out. Its formal name is Grinning face with one large and one small eye. The only emoji CLDR files under goofy, or under zany. Emoji 5.0.
Show all 52 silly faces (46 more)
Filed under silly and funny 4
😂Face with tears of joyU+1F602. The second of the three filed under funny. The third is the winking face with its tongue out. Emoji 0.6.
👻GhostU+1F47B. One of the two emoji CLDR files under silly. It also gets boo. Emoji 0.6.
🪿GooseU+1FABF. The other one filed under silly, for a silly goose. CLDR also lists honk. New in Emoji 15.0, so an older phone shows an empty box. Emoji 15.0.
🤣Rolling on the floor laughingU+1F923. One of three emoji CLDR files under funny. Emoji 3.0.
Funny faces in costume and fur 9
😹Cat with tears of joyU+1F639. A cat laughing until it cries. CLDR lists lol. Emoji 0.6.
🤡Clown faceU+1F921. CLDR gives it two words and no more: clown and face. Emoji 3.0.
🤠Cowboy hat faceU+1F920. Formally Face with cowboy hat. Emoji 3.0.
🥸Disguised faceU+1F978. Glasses, a big nose and a moustache. CLDR lists disguise and incognito. Emoji 13.0.
😸Grinning cat with smiling eyesU+1F638. A cat with a wide grin. Emoji 0.6.
🙉Hear-no-evil monkeyU+1F649. Hands over the ears. CLDR lists tmi. Emoji 0.6.
🤓Nerd faceU+1F913. Big glasses and front teeth. CLDR lists geek and brainy. Emoji 1.0.
🙈See-no-evil monkeyU+1F648. Hands over the eyes. CLDR lists omg. Emoji 0.6.
🙊Speak-no-evil monkeyU+1F64A. Hands over the mouth. CLDR lists oops. Emoji 0.6.
Silly faces from plain keys 20
:ÞThe letter thorn as a tongue
~(@_@)~Eyes in spirals, wobbling
:3Cat face, curled mouth
>:3Cat face, playful
:-bThe same with a nose
:bTongue out, the other way
d:Read from the right
o_OOne eye small, one large
(O_o)Odd eyes in a round face
\(o_O)/Odd eyes, arms up
:-PThe same with a nose
:PColon, capital P: tongue out
=pEquals sign for the eyes
>:PTongue out, eyebrows down
(>q<)Eyes squeezed shut, tongue out
(@q@)Spiral eyes, tongue out
(^q^)Upright, a q for the tongue
\(^q^)/Arms up, tongue out
~(^q^)~Wobbling, tongue out
XPEyes shut, tongue out
Silly combos 13
📸🤪Face for the photoCamera with flash, then zany face: the one you pull when someone says smile.
🤪🎈Goofing offZany face, then balloon.
🪿😜HonkGoose, then winking face with tongue. CLDR files honk under the goose.
🃏🤪Joker in the packJoker, then zany face.
😜😝Just kiddingThe two faces Unicode notes as kidding, not serious.
👉🤪Made you lookBackhand index pointing right, then zany face. The hand follows the skin tone.
🙈🙉🙊Monkey businessThe three monkeys in a row.
🥸👍Nobody will knowDisguised face, then thumbs up. The thumb follows the skin tone.
👻🤪Silly ghostGhost, then zany face. Boo, but not seriously.
🤪🪿Silly gooseZany face, then goose: the face filed under goofy and the bird filed under silly.
🤪💫Spun round too fastZany face, then dizzy, the ring of stars.
😛👍Tongue out, thumbs upFace with tongue, then thumbs up. The thumb follows the skin tone.
🙃🙂🙃Upside-down dayUpside-down face, slightly smiling face, upside-down face: only the middle one is the right way up.
How this list was compiled: Names, code points, sequences, skin tones and Emoji version numbers come from Unicode's emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); item names are the CLDR short names with a capital. Search words are the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml, main branch). Text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt) and the names of plain characters from UnicodeData.txt and NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). Three groups follow rules checked against the whole CLDR file: silly is a search word of two emoji, Ghost and Goose; goofy and zany of Zany face alone; wacky, weirdo and joke of Winking face with tongue alone; funny of three emoji and crazy of four. The formal names (Grinning face with one large and one small eye, Face with cowboy hat) are from UnicodeData.txt, and the note kidding, not serious on U+1F61C and U+1F61D is quoted from NamesList.txt. The tongue-out emoticons from :P to >:P, the cat faces :3 and >:3 and the pair O_o and o_O are rows of Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons, wikitext read 2026-09-30), which glosses the first row as tongue sticking out, cheeky or playful; the nose of :-P is typed here with a plain hyphen. The eight upright text faces with a q for a tongue or odd eyes, and the combos and their names, are this site's own; nobody has standardised them. Licence: own work (the selection, the combo names and the wording are this site's own; emoji names, sequences and search words come from Unicode's data files and CLDR, under the Unicode License v3; facts from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in this site's own words and credited in source)