😜 The Unicode History of winking face with tongue
When it was added, who approved it and what changed — everything about winking face with tongue in the Unicode Standard, from documented data.
2010
2010 — added to Unicode with Emoji E0.6 (Unicode 6.0) — This emoji is part of the original set encoded in Unicode 6.0 (2010) for compatibility with the emoji shipped by the Japanese mobile carriers.
U+
Encoded as U+1F61C
Who added it?
This emoji was approved by the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee (ESC), the body of the Unicode Consortium that reviews and standardizes every emoji proposal. No single company owns it: vendors are free to draw their own artwork for the same character.