🤔 Thinking face
🤔 Emoji meaning
My head is spinning! Mulling things over, pondering, questioning ideas.
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🤔 Meaning
The thinker's pose: Thoughtful face with the characteristic hand on the chin. Puts a statement, a person's intelligence, or an idea into question. Is mulling over something or thinking about a brilliant idea.
Examples
- Do you really mean that? 🤔
- This isn't as simple as it seems! 🤔
- I need to think about that for a minute. 🤔
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Commonly confused with
Same Emotion
Thinking face vs face with raised eyebrow; both skeptical or questioning.
Thinking face vs face with monocle; both show thinking or scrutinizing.
Thinking face vs confused face; both signal doubt or uncertainty.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Thinking 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.
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In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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Comments
(3) Comments
Anonymous Questioning something, like “you don't know what you're talking about“. When someone sends me something like that, I always take it negatively.
Anonymous We use this emoji as a sarcastic remark to a joke like “Oh reallyyy?“
Lucky Surprised by something.