Thinking Face, with a hand on its chin, means you are pondering, doubtful or skeptical. It is also known as the thinking emoji and hmm emoji. 🤔 Thinking Face is an emoji from the Smileys & Emotion category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F914 and it was released in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🤔 Thinking Face mean?
Thinking Face, with a hand on its chin, means you are pondering, doubtful or skeptical. It asks "hmm, are you sure?" or signals you are considering an idea.
The 🤔 Thinking Face emoji belongs to the with hands group of the Smileys & Emotion category. You will see it in chats and captions related to chin, consider, face, hmm and ponder. It is the emoji version of the classic text emoticon :l. It was approved as part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :thinking: to insert it.
Thinking Face emoji codes
| Emoji | 🤔 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F914 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🤔 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🤔 |
| CSS | \1F914 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F914} |
| Python | \U0001F914 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%94 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 94 |
| Shortcode | :thinking: |
| Shortcode (alt) | :thinking_face: |
| Emoticon | :l |
| Emoticon | :L |
How to type 🤔 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “thinking face”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “thinking face”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “face”.
- HTML: write
🤔in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Thinking Face keywords
- chin
- consider
- face
- hmm
- ponder
- pondering
- thinking
- wondering
Frequently asked questions
What does 🤔 mean?
Thinking Face, with a hand on its chin, means you are pondering, doubtful or skeptical. It asks "hmm, are you sure?" or signals you are considering an idea.
What is the 🤔 emoji called?
Its official Unicode name is Thinking Face, but people also call it the thinking emoji and hmm emoji.
How do I copy and paste the Thinking Face 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 🤔 Thinking Face added to Unicode?
Thinking Face was released as part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Related With Hands emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.