Thinking face emoji 🤔
Emoji 1.0 (2015) · U+1F914
What 🤔 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Thinking face 🤔 is tagged with these keywords: chin, consider, face, hmm, ponder, pondering, thinking, wondering.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing chin or consider in the emoji search brings up 🤔.
Thinking face 🤔 is one of 7 emoji in the faces with hands subgroup of smileys & emotion (172 emoji), next to 🫡 🤗 🤭 🫢.
Will 🤔 show on my friend's phone?
🤔 arrived with Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
How to type 🤔
Any emoji picker finds 🤔 when you search for thinking face.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type thinking face.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type thinking face in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type thinking face.
Codes for developers
Thinking face 🤔 is a single code point, U+1F914. 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+1F914 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤔 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤔 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F914"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F914} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%94 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 94 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🤔 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | thinking face |
| Português | rosto pensativo |
| Español | cara pensativa |
| Italiano | faccina concentrata |
| Français | visage en pleine réflexion |
| Deutsch | nachdenkendes Gesicht |
| Türkçe | düşünen yüz |
| Bahasa Indonesia | wajah berpikir |
| Polski | myśląca twarz |
| Русский | думает |
| 日本語 | 考える顔 |
| 한국어 | 생각하는 얼굴 |
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What does the thinking face emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤔 "thinking face" and links it with chin, consider, face, hmm. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the faces with hands subgroup of smileys & emotion.
When was the thinking face emoji added?
In Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the thinking face emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🤔 when you search for thinking face.