🤔️ Thinking face emoji
HTML
🤔
Unicode
U+1F914
What is 🤔️ called?
🤔️ is called the Thinking face emoji.
Often called the pondering face, hmm face or chin-hand face. “Hmm” represents the thoughtful pause suggested by its hand-on-chin pose.
What does 🤔️ mean?
The thinking face emoji means considering, wondering, questioning, or working through a problem. It often accompanies “hmm,” a difficult decision, a theory, or a request for time to think.
Its hand-on-chin pose makes the thought process visible. 🤨 Face with raised eyebrow emphasizes skepticism toward a claim, while 💭 Thought balloon represents thoughts without a facial reaction.
It can be sincere or humorous: a writer may genuinely weigh options, challenge an idea politely, or pretend to investigate something obvious.
Other meanings
It may show doubt, curiosity, suspicion, analysis, or remembering a forgotten detail. Used after another person’s statement, it can quietly ask whether the statement is really true.
Example Usage
Should we take the train or drive instead? 🤔
That explanation does not quite match the numbers 🤔
More details
Its Unicode code point is U+1F914, and it has been available as an emoji since Emoji 1.0. The gesture draws on a familiar visual convention for contemplation rather than indicating one specific answer.
Related emoji
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- 🤗️ Smiling face with open hands
- 🤭️ Face with hand over mouth
- 🫢️ Face with open eyes and hand over mouth
- 🫣️ Face with peeking eye
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Visual description
A yellow face rests one hand against or beneath its chin. The eyes usually look upward or sideways, and one eyebrow may be raised as if considering a question.
Platforms vary which hand is shown, the direction of the gaze, and whether the mouth looks neutral, pursed, or slightly frowning.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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