
🤓 Nerd face
🤓 Emoji meaning
Nerdy face with glasses and buck teeth, smart and ironic.
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🤓 Meaning
Nerd emoji 🤓 is a face with big glasses, an awkward smile and buck teeth. It's often used in a humorous or ironic way to describe nerds or to express how smart you are. It represents the stereotype of the nerd, an intelligent but oddly dressed person with social deficits. Although this emoji is often used by people who pejoratively refer to themselves as nerds, in some cases the combination of nerd glasses and buck teeth can also evoke anti-Asian stereotypes. The fact that the default color is yellow reinforces this problematic representation. Some platforms have revised the nerd emoji over time to remove the buck teeth, possibly in recognition of the potential harm this representation can cause.
Examples
- I just looked that up. 🤓
- I’m totally in study mode! 🤓
- Do you know the answer to that? 🤓
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Commonly confused with
Same Emotion
Sunglasses vs nerd face; both glasses-wearing faces, one ‘cool’, one ‘geeky’, sometimes swapped jokingly.
Nerd face vs neutral face; on tiny screens, glasses may blend into eyes, reading as plain neutral.
Nerd face vs monocle; both intellectual, studious expressions.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Nerd face” was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords added
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
Keywords removed
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords added
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
Keywords added
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
Keywords removed
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Comments
(5) Comments
Faith Thinking of using this quote for my WhatsApp status: "People meet me and say, 'You're so quiet, I'm reading you. Give me a minute.'" Wondering if this emoji 🤓 fits well with it.
Taruba You can use this if you feel uncomfortable or strange.
Rico Use this when solving a very difficult problem or providing a concrete equation.
Mahi Gohil Intelligence. 🤓
Ryan Perfect for calling someone a nerd.


















