Funny & Meme Emoji

😂 Face with Tears of Joy is still the most-sent emoji in the world, and for a plain "that's funny" it works everywhere. 🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing is the louder version, the emoji form of ROFL. 😹 is the same tears-of-joy laugh on a cat, handy when the joke was about a cat or when you want to be a little odd about it.

Younger users mostly laugh with 💀 Skull and 😭 Loudly Crying Face instead. The skull is "I'm dead": the joke was so funny it killed me. ☠️ is the stronger, pirate-flag version of the same thing. 😭 is "I'm crying", which online means laughing rather than sad, and 😭🙏 adds "please stop". On TikTok in 2021 a prank declared 🪑 Chair the new laughing emoji, and for a few months comment sections filled up with chairs; people still use it as an in-joke.

Meme emoji meanings: 🗿, 🤡, 💩, 🫠 and friends

🗿 Moai is the deadpan face of the internet: posted alone it says "no reaction", "unbothered" or "that was so bad I turned to stone". 🤡 Clown Face calls someone (often yourself) a clown, as in "I really believed that 🤡", and 🤡🎪 means the whole situation is a circus. 💩 Pile of Poo is the friendly, smiling turd that has been a joke since the first Japanese phone emoji, and it is the easy way to say something is rubbish without swearing.

🫠 Melting Face, added in 2021, is embarrassment, heat or slow despair, the feeling of dissolving into the floor. 🥸 Disguised Face is the Groucho glasses and nose for "undercover" or "pretending to be someone else". 🤠 Cowboy Hat Face is "yeehaw" energy and the face of fake cheer in copypastas. 🤥 Lying Face has Pinocchio's long nose for "that's a lie", and 🫡 Saluting Face is "yes chef" or "o7", mock-serious obedience to any instruction.

The call-outs have their own set. 🤨📸 is "caught in 4K", the raised eyebrow and the camera flash that proves it. 🤓☝️ is the "well, actually" nerd who corrects everyone, often sent to mock your own pedantry. 🧢 Billed Cap means "cap", a lie, so "no cap" is "no lie". 🚩 Triangular Flag is a red flag, and three of them list someone's dating red flags. 🅱️ replaces the letter B in words as a running gag, and 🆚 sets up any absurd matchup.

Silly faces, body parts and the hands that tell the joke

The tongue-out faces are the original funny emoji: 😛 Face with Tongue is cheeky, 😜 winks with it, 😝 squeezes its eyes shut and 🤪 Zany Face goes fully unhinged, one eye big and one small. 🙃 Upside-Down Face is sarcasm or "I'm fine, everything is fine", and 😏 Smirking Face is a knowing "sus" look.

Single body parts make some of the best jokes. 👁️👄👁️ went viral in 2020 as a face made of an eye, a mouth and an eye, the look of someone staring at a mess they cannot look away from. 👀 Eyes means "I'm watching this" or "spill", 👅 and 🫦 are flirty or thirsty, 🧠 stands for "big brain" or its absence, and 🦴 is a dog's bone or a very old joke.

Hands carry whole memes: 🤌 Pinched Fingers is the Italian "what do you want from me" gesture, 🤏 Pinching Hand means something is tiny, 🫵😹 is "you!" with pointing and laughing, 👉👈 next to 😳 is the shy "I just think they're neat" pose, and 💅 is "slay" or "not my problem". 🤷 Person Shrugging is the emoji version of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, 🤦 is the facepalm, 💁 is sass, and 🏃💨 is "I'm leaving" at speed. 🕴️ Person in Suit Levitating looks like someone exiting the conversation with dignity, and 🫃 Pregnant Man became a joke the day it was announced in 2021, standing in for "I ate too much".

Meme animals, props and snacks

🐸 Frog is Kermit sipping tea in the "but that's none of my business" meme, so 🐸☕ means "I'm just saying". 🦀 Crab is the crab rave, danced whenever something unpopular finally ends. 🐐 Goat is GOAT, greatest of all time. 🦍 and 🦧 are the "return to monke" apes, 🐀 is a rat for the sneaky, 🪿 Goose is the chaotic bird, 🦆 is the duck that fits any absurd story, 🪳 is the pest you cannot get rid of and 🦭 Seal is the laughing seal. 🙈🙉🙊 are the three wise monkeys, now the emoji for "I can't look", "I didn't hear that" and "oops, I said that out loud".

Props make a scene. 🔥 and 💯 mean "lit" and "keep it 100", 📈📉 are "stonks" going up or down, ⚰️ is the 2020 coffin dance that follows any fail, 🎺 is the trumpet-playing skeleton (doot doot), 🎻🤏 plays the world's smallest violin for someone else's complaint, and 🥁 is the ba-dum-tss after a bad pun. 🧻🚽 became the Skibidi Toilet gag of 2023, 🕳️ is "dig me a hole, I want to disappear", 💨 is a quick exit or a fart, and 💥 is the punchline landing.

Food jokes: 🍵 and ☕ are "tea", the gossip you spill or sip. 🍿 means you are watching drama unfold, and 🍌 is slapstick, the banana peel of every cartoon. 🍑 Peach and 🍆 Eggplant are the innuendo pair; they are so established that Instagram and Facebook started removing their sexual use in 2019.

Funny text faces: shrug, Lenny, table flip

Before emoji did it, keyboards did. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is the shrug, built from a macron, backslashes, brackets and the Japanese katakana syllable ツ (tsu) as the face. ಠ_ಠ is the look of disapproval: two Kannada letters from south India, popular on Reddit since 2009, with ಥ_ಥ for streaming tears and ಡ_ಡ for a wobbly glare. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) is the Lenny face from 2012, made of two combining accents (͡ and ͜), two degree signs and the IPA letter ʖ as the nose.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ flips the table with box-drawing characters, and ┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) puts it back. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ runs off happily using Canadian syllabics, ʘ‿ʘ stares with bilabial-click eyes, ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) rages with Georgian hands and the Chinese character 益, and (⌐■_■) puts on the deal-with-it sunglasses. The pieces are in the grid above so you can build your own; the finished faces are in the combos, and the full set lives in the Kaomoji Symbols collection.