Lenny Faces ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
120+ text faces, meme emoticons & dongers. Click any face to copy!
All Lenny Faces & Text Emoticons
Click any face to copy instantly
Lenny Face Packs
Curated collections by mood
Classic Lenny
8 items
Table Flips
6 items
Cool & Sunglasses
6 items
Sad & Crying
6 items
Angry & Fighting
6 items
Animal Faces
6 items
Lenny faces are text emoticons crafted from creative combinations of Unicode characters. From the iconic Lenny to table flips and shrugs—these expressive text faces have become integral to internet culture and meme communication worldwide.
Unlike standard emoji which are platform-designed images, Lenny faces are handcrafted from raw Unicode characters. This gives them a unique raw, unpolished charm that emoji cannot replicate. The original Lenny Face appeared on Finnish imageboard Ylilauta in 2012 and quickly spread across Reddit, 4chan, Twitch, and eventually all social platforms.
Our collection features the classic Lenny and its many variations, disapproval faces, table flips and unflips, shrug faces, bear faces, excited faces, sad faces, and dozens more. Each copies with one click and works on Discord, Reddit, Twitch chat, Twitter, and any text field where you want to express yourself.
Pro tip: Lenny faces are most effective when used sparingly for comedic timing. Dropping a perfectly placed table flip or shrug face in a conversation creates instant humor. Overusing them diminishes the impact—save them for the perfect moment.
Building and Pasting Lenny Face Emoticons
A Lenny face like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) is not a single character but a tiny piece of typographic art assembled from ordinary code points — parentheses, degree signs and combining marks that stack accents onto the eyes. Because everything is plain text, the face carries into Discord messages, Reddit comments, Steam chats and usernames without any image upload or special font.
The classic shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ borrows the Japanese katakana "tsu" for its smirk, and table-flippers such as (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ line up box-drawing characters to form the flying table. Now and then a client that handles combining diacritics poorly will nudge the accents slightly out of place, but on current browsers and apps they sit where they should. The wider donger family stretches from cute (◕‿◕) and celebratory ヽ(•‿•)ノ to menacing ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°), each carrying a different tone, so browse for the mood you want first. Rather than typing each mark by hand, copy a finished face and drop it straight into a caption, comment or bio for instant deadpan, sarcasm or celebration.
How to Use Lenny Faces
Find the perfect face
Browse our collection of 120+ text faces organized by mood: happy, sad, angry, cool, love, and more.
Click to copy
Simply click any Lenny face to copy it to your clipboard instantly. No selecting or right-clicking needed.
Paste anywhere
Press Ctrl+V (or Cmd+V on Mac) to paste your text face in Discord, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, or any text field.
Lenny Face FAQ
The Lenny Face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) is a text emoticon made from Unicode characters. It originated in 2012 on a Finnish imageboard and became one of the most widely used internet meme faces. The face uses special combining characters to create its distinctive suggestive expression.
Yes! Lenny faces are made from standard Unicode text characters, so they work on virtually every platform: Discord, Reddit, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Slack, email, and any text field. They display the same way regardless of device or operating system.
The table flip (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ is a text emoticon showing a person flipping a table in frustration. It's commonly used to express anger or rage humorously. The companion emoticon ┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) shows someone calmly putting the table back.
The shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ uses a mix of regular characters and the Japanese katakana character ツ (tsu). Rather than trying to type it manually, simply click it here to copy it to your clipboard. On some platforms, the backslash may need to be doubled (¯\\_(ツ)_/¯) to display correctly.
Yes! Lenny faces are extremely popular in Twitch chat. Since they are made from standard Unicode characters, they work without any special extensions. Many Twitch communities have adopted specific Lenny variations as inside jokes.
Lenny faces combine characters from various scripts: Kannada, Thai, Japanese, and combining diacritical marks. Start with a framework like ( ) for the face shape, add eyes from foreign scripts, and experiment with combining marks for expressions.