Brain represents intelligence, thinking and ideas. 🧠 Brain is an emoji from the People & Body category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F9E0 and it was released in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🧠 Brain mean?
Brain represents intelligence, thinking and ideas. It is used for "big brain" moments, overthinking, mental health and — jokingly — galaxy-brain logic.
🧠 is the Brain emoji, listed under People & Body → Body Parts in the Unicode emoji standard. It is commonly associated with intelligent and smart. Brain has been available since Emoji 5.0 (2017), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :brain: to insert it.
Brain emoji codes
| Emoji | 🧠 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F9E0 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🧠 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🧠 |
| CSS | \1F9E0 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9E0} |
| Python | \U0001F9E0 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A7%A0 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 A0 |
| Shortcode | :brain: |
How to type 🧠 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “brain”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “brain”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “brain”.
- HTML: write
🧠in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Brain keywords
- intelligent
- smart
Frequently asked questions
What does 🧠 mean?
Brain represents intelligence, thinking and ideas. It is used for "big brain" moments, overthinking, mental health and — jokingly — galaxy-brain logic.
How do I copy and paste the Brain emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🧠 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🧠 Brain added to Unicode?
Brain was released as part of Emoji 5.0 in 2017.
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Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.