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Lenny Face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) — Copy & Paste + 10 Variants

┤ THE LENNY FACE ├ ┤ #003 ├

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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── VARIANTS────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────[10]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

CLASSIC

( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

WINK

( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ)

HAPPY

( ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°)

FROWN

( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

STERN

ᕦ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕤ

FLEX

(☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞

FINGER GUNS

( ͡ಥ ͜ʖ ͡ಥ)

CRYING

( ͡• ͜ʖ ͡• )

GENTLE

( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)

LENNYCEPTION

── WHAT IS THE LENNY FACE?────────────────────────────────────────────────

The Lenny face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) is a smug, insinuating emoticon assembled from surprisingly exotic Unicode: the eyebrows are combining double inverted breves (U+0361) that attach to the characters before them, the eyes are degree signs, the nose is a Latin inverted glottal stop ʖ borrowed from the phonetic alphabet, and the mouth is a combining double breve below.

It surfaced on the Finnish imageboard Ylilauta in late 2012 — where a mistranslated post gave it the name "Lenny" — and was spammed across 4chan and Reddit within days. It has meant "I know what you did there" ever since.

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CHARNAMECODE POINTHTML ENTITY

͡COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVEU+0361͡

°DEGREE SIGNU+00B0°

͜COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOWU+035C͜

ʖLATIN LETTER INVERTED GLOTTAL STOPU+0296ʖ

(LEFT PARENTHESISU+0028(

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▸ Honestly? Copy it.

Nobody types these by hand. Hit the copy button above, or make a text-replacement shortcut so it expands as you type.

▸ Windows

The combining marks make this one genuinely impossible to type. Add a text replacement like ;lenny, or pin it in clipboard history (Win+V).

▸ macOS / iOS

System Settings → Keyboard → Text Replacements. Type ;lenny → expands everywhere, synced by iCloud.

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[+] Why do the eyebrows float or overlap in some apps?

The eyebrows are combining characters — they render on top of the preceding character rather than occupying their own slot. Fonts with weak combining-mark support draw them misaligned. The face itself is intact; it is purely a rendering issue.

[+] What does the Lenny face mean?

Suggestive smugness: "I see what you did there", flirtation, or trolling delight. It is the raised eyebrow of text emoticons — rarely sincere, always knowing.

[+] Why is it called Lenny?

On the Finnish board Ylilauta in 2012, users spammed the face alongside the name "Lenny" from a mistranslated thread, and the name stuck when screenshots hit 4chan and Reddit.

[+] Is ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ASCII?

Definitely not — it leans on IPA letters and combining diacritics that did not exist in any 7-bit character set. It is one of the most Unicode-dependent "ASCII" emoticons in circulation.

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