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A yellow face with furrowed eyebrows looking upwards with thumb and index finger resting on its chin. Intended to show a person pondering or deep in thought.&nbsp;Often used to question or scorn something or someone,&nbsp;as if saying Hmm, I don&#39;t know about that. Tone varies, including earnest, playful, puzzled, skeptical, and mocking.

May be paired with <a href="/thought-balloon/">💭 Thought Balloon</a> or <a href="/light-bulb/">💡 Light Bulb</a> to represent&nbsp;thinking, (having) ideas, and learning.

Joins <a href="/hugging-face/">🤗&nbsp;Hugging Face</a>, <a href="/shushing-face/">🤫&nbsp;Shushing Face</a>, and <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭&nbsp;Face With Hand Over Mouth</a> as one of the few smileys featuring a hand.

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Thinking Face

A classic smiley, turned upside down. Implemented as a flipped version of&nbsp;<a href="/slightly-smiling-face/">🙂 Slightly Smiling Face</a>&nbsp;on most platforms.

Commonly used to convey&nbsp;irony, sarcasm, joking, or a sense of goofiness or silliness.&nbsp;Its intent can be&nbsp;similar to the bemused Oh well! of <a href="/person-shrugging/">🤷&nbsp;Person Shrugging</a> or the shruggie emoticon, &macr;\_(ツ)_/&macr;.

Microsoft&#39;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/upside-down-face/">previously featured</a> a full-toothed grin.

Upside-Down Face

A yellow face with a slight&nbsp;smile or open mouth&nbsp;shown winking, usually its left eye. May signal&nbsp;a joke, flirtation, hidden meaning, or general positivity. Tone varies, including playful, affectionate, suggestive, or ironic.

Not to be confused with the more mischievous or&nbsp;sexual&nbsp;<a href="/smirking-face/">😏 Smirking Face</a>.&nbsp;An emoji form of the ;) emoticon.

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Winking Face

A yellow face smiling with <a href="/open-hands/">open hands</a>, as if giving a hug.&nbsp;May be used to offer thanks and support, show love and care, or express warm, positive feelings more generally.

Due to its hand gesture, often used to represent jazz hands, indicating such feelings as excitement, enthusiasm, or a sense of flourish or accomplishment.

Joins <a href="/thinking-face/">🤔&nbsp;Thinking Face</a>, <a href="/shushing-face/">🤫&nbsp;Shushing Face</a>, and <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭&nbsp;Face With Hand Over Mouth</a> as one of the few smileys featuring hands. For a more obvious hug, see&nbsp;<a href="/people-hugging/">🫂 People Hugging</a>&nbsp;(new in 2020).

Hugging Face

A yellow face with a flat, neutral mouth and furrowed eyebrows, its left raised higher than its right. Conveys a wide variety of sentiments, including suspicion, skepticism, concern, consideration, disbelief, and disapproval.

Its expression <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/rise-of-the-colbert-emoji/">has notably been likened</a> to the signature look of comedian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert">Stephen Colbert</a> as well as actor/wrestler <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_Johnson">Dwayne &ldquo;The Rock&rdquo; Johnson</a>.

Face with One Eyebrow Raised

A yellow face with flat, closed eyes and mouth. May convey a sense of frustration or annoyance more intense than suggested by&nbsp;<a href="/neutral-face/">😐 Neutral Face</a>,&nbsp;as if taking a moment to collect itself.

Microsoft&#39;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/expressionless-face/">previously</a> displayed this emoji with its eyes open, while Samsung&#39;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/expressionless-face/">previously</a> had eyebrows.

Expressionless Face

A yellow face with a sly, smug, mischievous, or suggestive facial expression. It features a half-smile, raised eyebrows, and eyes looking to the side. Often used to convey flirtation or sexual innuendo.

Not to be confused with <a href="/unamused-face/">😒 Unamused Face</a>, which has similar eyes but a pouting mouth.&nbsp;This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/cat-with-wry-smile/">😼 Cat Face With Wry Smile</a>.

On&nbsp;<a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a>, this emoji next to a contact denotes&nbsp;that this person snaps you frequently&nbsp;but you do not often snap them in return.

Smirking Face

A yellow face with&nbsp;a small, closed mouth, flat or frowning, rolling its large, white eyes upwards. As with the gesture of an eye-roll, commonly conveys moderate disdain, disapproval, frustration, or boredom. Tone varies, including playful, sassy, resentful, and sarcastic, as if saying Yeah, whatever.

Samsung&#39;s design&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/face-with-rolling-eyes/">previously depicted</a> a face smiling and looking to the side.

Face with Rolling Eyes

A yellow face with simple open eyes showing clenched teeth. May represent a range of negative or tense emotions, especially nervousness, embarrassment, or awkwardness (e.g., Eek!).

Resembled <a href="/beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😁 Beaming Face With Smiling Eyes</a> on Apple iOS <a href="/apple/ios-8.3/beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes/">prior to 2016</a>. Apple&rsquo;s design for <a href="/cold-face/">🥶 Cold Face</a> features the same mouth. Samsung&#39;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/grimacing-face/">previously featured</a> more puckered-looking lips.&nbsp;

On&nbsp;<a href="/snapchat/" title="👻 Snapchat Emoji &amp; Emoticon Meanings">Snapchat</a>, this&nbsp;emoji next to a contact denotes that you send the most snaps to the same person that they do., i.e.,&nbsp;you share a #1 Best Friend.

Grimacing Face

A yellow face with an open&nbsp;mouth, the top of its head exploding in the shape of a brain-like mushroom cloud. A visual form of the expression mind blown, it&nbsp;may represent such emotions as shock, awe, amazement, and disbelief.

Apple&rsquo;s design features the same expression as its&nbsp;<a href="/frowning-face-with-open-mouth/">😦 Frowning Face With Open Mouth</a>.

Shocked Face with Exploding Head

A smiling yellow face with glasses, often with teeth showing, originally buck teeth on most platforms.

While this emoji is often used by people calling themselves nerds in a self-deprecating way, the nerdy glasses paired with buck teeth can, and often does, evoke anti-Asian stereotypes. The fact that the default color of emoji faces is yellow further pushes this emoji into racist &quot;<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/189200/asians-meet-new-yellow-emoji-with-frowny-face/">yellowface</a>&quot;&nbsp;territory.

Some platforms have redesigned nerd face&nbsp;over time to not have buck teeth, perhaps in acknowledgement of the harm this imagery&nbsp;may cause. Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and JoyPixels <a href="/google/android-7.0/nerd-face/">originally</a> <a href="/facebook/2.0/nerd-face/">featured</a> <a href="/joypixels/4.0/nerd-face/">designs</a> with buck teeth but have since changed (or completely removed) the teeth on nerd face.

Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, Samsung, and other platforms still use designs for this emoji that include buck teeth.

Nerd Face

A yellow face with furrowed eyebrows wearing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocle">monocle</a>. Usually depicted with a small,&nbsp;intent frown and head slightly upturned, as if in careful inspection.

May&nbsp;show that someone is pondering, considering, or questioning something, sometimes with a sense of&nbsp;skeptical or ironic observation or encouraging a closer look at some content. May convey a sense of sophistication or smug intelligence, e.g., smarty-pants.

Face with Monocle

A yellow face with open eyes and a skewed frown, as if scrunching its cheeks or chewing its lips. A look of&nbsp;feeling unsure.

While it can convey confusion or hesitation,&nbsp;it is also commonly used for slight sadness, disappointment, and frustration.

Huawei&#39;s design for this emoji includes a&nbsp;<a href="/question-mark">❓ Red Question Mark</a>.

<a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/confused-face/">Samsung</a> previously included raised eyebrows, as did <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/confused-face/">Microsoft</a> along with a rotated&nbsp;S-shaped mouth, &agrave; la the :S emoticon.&nbsp;Google&rsquo;s design also <a href="/google/android-8.0/confused-face/">previously&nbsp;included</a>&nbsp;a furrowed brow.

Confused Face

A yellow face with a closed slanted mouth. Can be used to express skepticism,&nbsp;confusion, or&nbsp;frustration.&nbsp;

Face with Diagonal Mouth

A large cloud-like shape more commonly known as a thought bubble.

Used to represent thinking, or thoughts, and commonly used in&nbsp;comics to display the thoughts of a drawn character. May also be used to represent a dream, or daydream.

Thought Balloon

An emoji showing the fingers held together in a vertical orientation, often referred to as the Italian hand gesture ma che vuoi, sometimes called the &quot;finger purse.&quot;&nbsp;In Italy this gesture tends to be used in disagreement, frustration, or disbelief and can mean &ldquo;What do you want?&rdquo; or &ldquo;What are you saying?&rdquo; Outside Italy anyone performing a caricature of an Italian person, regardless of context or tone, might use this gesture.

Pinched Fingers has a variety of other culturally specific uses. In Israeli culture it can mean &ldquo;hold on,&rdquo; &ldquo;relax,&rdquo; or &ldquo;be patient.&rdquo; The K-Pop star <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwon_Yu-ri">Yuri</a> uses it as a signature gesture to represent a <a href="/dumpling/">dumpling</a> and a general warm sentiment. It can also be used to represent the act of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisting">fisting</a>.

Not to be confused with <a href="/pinching-hand/">🤏 Pinching Hand</a>, which has overlapping senses. Both are used to represent <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/the-pinching-hand-emoji-is-a-lot/">precision</a> when someone is making a sharp point with accompanying speech.

Pinched Fingers

A human brain, shown in pink on most platforms. Used to indicate thinking or the human mind.

On platforms such as TikTok an alternative&nbsp;meaning of this emoji is to represent &#39;giving head&#39; (<a href="/nsfw/">NSFW meanings</a>).

Brain

A pair of eyes, glancing slightly to the left on most platforms.&nbsp;The Google version of this emoji <a href="/google/android-4.4/eyes/" title="👀 Eyes on Google Android 4.4">previously</a>&nbsp;showed only a <a href="/eye/" title="👁 Eye">single eye</a>, despite the name of this character being eyes&nbsp;(plural).

Sometimes&nbsp;used to&nbsp;indicate &lsquo;pervy eyes&rsquo; to indicate approval of an attractive photo posted online; or&nbsp;&lsquo;shifty eyes&rsquo; to convey a deceitful act.

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Eyes

A person who is engaged in education. Generally depicted wearing a black graduation gown and cap, and occasionally holding a&nbsp;degree certificate or diploma.

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Student

A person standing in front of a chalkboard (aka blackboard) with the intention of teaching a class. Often shown holding a&nbsp;<a href="/closed-book/">📕 Closed Book</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(rod)">pointer</a>.

Teacher

A light bulb, as screwed into a <a href="/couch-and-lamp/">lamp</a> to light a room. Depicted as an incandescent bulb with a silver base, often shown with filament and a soft, yellow-white glow.

Commonly used to represent ideas (as over a head in a cartoon), thinking, and learning, often as paired with <a href="/thinking-face/">🤔 Thinking Face</a> or <a href="/thought-balloon/">💭 Thought Balloon</a>. May also represent various&nbsp;senses of light and brightness.

Electric Light Bulb

An open, hardcover book, depicted with a blue cover on most platforms. Some platforms include a bookmark. Commonly used for various content concerning reading, writing, learning, and schooling.

Apple&rsquo;s design displays text from its 1997&ndash;2002 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different">Think Different</a> ad campaign:

Here&rsquo;s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.The ones who see things differently. They&rsquo;re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can&rsquo;t do is&hellip;

Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/open-book/">previously</a> featured&nbsp;a brown cover with a red bookmark, similar to an early design for <a href="/closed-book/">📕 Closed Book</a>.

Open Book

A large red exclamation mark (!) and a large red question mark symbol (?) placed side-by-side (!?).

Exclamation Question Mark

A large red question mark (?) symbol emoji.

Black Question Mark Ornament

A large white question mark (?) symbol emoji.

White Question Mark Ornament

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Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord, Roblox, and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

🤔 Thinking Face on Apple iOS 12.2

🤔 Thinking Face on Apple iOS 12.2

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