Thinking Face emoji
Type :thinking: · #26 most-used emoji · Smileys & emotion
Unicode name Thinking Face · added in Emoji 1.0, 2015
What 🤔 means
The thinking face is the gentle pushback: interesting, but let me sit with it. In review threads it flags doubt without starting a fight, which makes it one of the most useful work emojis there is.
If you are trying to read into it
The thinking face is gentle pushback: interesting, but let me sit with it. In review threads it flags doubt without starting a fight. Received on your own idea it usually means genuine consideration rather than criticism, though a bare 🤔 with no words is doing something more pointed.
How to type 🤔 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :thin
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 🤔 from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:thinking: :thinking_face::wtf: Emoticon trigger
Typing :l followed by a
space becomes 🤔 automatically.
🤔 in HTML, CSS and code
Thinking Face is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F914
- HTML
- 🤔
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F914}'
- CSS content
- "\1F914"
- Python
- '\U0001F914'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%A4%94
Related emojis
:face_with_raised_eyebrow: 😀 :grinning: 😃 :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: 😄 :grinning_face_with_closed_eyes: 😁 :beaming_face: 😆 :laughing: 😅 :grinning_face_with_sweat: 🤣 :rofl: 😂 :joy: 🙂 :slightly_smiling_face: All smileys & emotion shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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