๐ค Nerd Face
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face smiling with thick, black-rimmed eyeglasses and buck teeth on most platforms. Styled after a stereotypical nerd, with buck teeth a racist caricature historically mocking East Asians. Some feature white-taped glasses, another nerd trope. Smile and glasses vary across platforms.
Meaning varies, but often used as a self-deprecating but positive way to express or demonstrate someone is being a nerd, i.e., exceptionally technical, knowledgeable, or excited about something, from school to fashion to sports. Also used to represent eyeglasses or someone wearing them more generally.
๐ Smiling Face With Sunglasses wears similarly shaped sunglasses.
Nerd Face was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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Also Known As
- ๐ค Nerdy
Apple Name
๐ค Smiling Face with Glasses
Codepoints
Shortcodes
- :nerd_face: (Github, Slack, Emojipedia)
See also
- โ๏ธ Alembic
- ๐ Books
- ๐ง Brain
- ๐ฅ๏ธ Desktop Computer
- ๐ Glasses
- ๐ง Face with Monocle
- ๐คจ Face with Raised Eyebrow
- ๐ Open Book
- ๐ป Laptop
- ๐ Vulcan Salute
- ๐คฏ Exploding Head
- ๐ Smiling Face with Sunglasses
- ๐ค Thinking Face
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- ๐ค on Instagram
- ๐ค on Twitter
- ๐ค on Wikipedia
- ๐ค on Yelp
- ๐ค on YouTube
- ๐ค on Google Trends
- ๐ค on Nomad List
Proposals
- ๐ค Nerd Face Emoji Proposal: L2/14-174