What 🤤 means
Wanting something so much you drool. The target might be a burger, a crush or a new phone; the drool turns the craving into cartoon exaggeration. Unicode files it with sleepy faces such as 😪 and 😴, so literal nap drool is a fair reading too, and context decides which one you got. It was encoded partly for compatibility: the 2015 proposal lists it to match an existing Yahoo Messenger smiley.
What does it mean when someone sends you 🤤?
Check what it replied to first. On food, it is pure appetite. On your selfie, it says you look good and the sender is not playing it cool. That signals attraction, not a promise of anything serious. From a friend trading jokes it is playful; from a coworker or near-stranger on a personal photo it can feel creepy.
Casual and exaggerated; it makes approval sound like appetite.
On someone's selfie, 🤤 reads as desire, not a neutral compliment.
What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsDon't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
3Worth knowing
- 🤤 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
3Is 🤤 sexual?
It can be. On a selfie or a thirst trap, a photo posted to make viewers sexually interested, it reads as flirtation; under a food photo it is just hunger.
Did 🤤 ever look scared on Samsung phones?
Yes, briefly. In February 2018 Samsung's blue-gradient design was publicly mistaken for a shocked face; Samsung revised it less than two weeks later.
Can 🤤 be an insult?
Sometimes. A 2018 example paired it with calling people idiots, turning the drool into a jab at stupidity.
How to type 🤤
:drooling_face:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.🤤Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.