Brain emoji 🧠
Emoji 5.0 (2017) · U+1F9E0
What 🧠 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Brain 🧠 is tagged with these keywords: intelligent, smart.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing intelligent or smart in the emoji search brings up 🧠.
Brain 🧠 is one of 18 emoji in the body parts subgroup of people & body (390 emoji), next to 🫀 🫁 🦷 🦴.
Will 🧠 show on my friend's phone?
🧠 was added in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
How to type 🧠
Any emoji picker finds 🧠 when you search for brain.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type brain.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type brain in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type brain.
Codes for developers
Brain 🧠 is a single code point, U+1F9E0. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9E0 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧠 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧠 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9E0"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9E0} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%A0 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 A0 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧠 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the brain emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧠 "brain" and links it with intelligent, smart. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the body parts subgroup of people & body.
When was the brain emoji added?
In Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. Phones updated since about 2018 show it.
How do I type the brain emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🧠 when you search for brain.