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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 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 component displaying a person&#39;s bald head. Intended for use within emoji sequences.

Emoji Component Bald

An emoji component displaying a person&#39;s curly hair. Intended for use within emoji sequences.

Emoji Component Curly Hair

An emoji component displaying a person&rsquo;s red hair. Intended for use within emoji sequences.

Emoji Component Red Hair

An emoji component displaying a person&#39;s white hair. Intended for use within emoji sequences.

Emoji Component White Hair

An invisible codepoint which specifies that the preceding character should be displayed with emoji presentation. Only required if the preceding character defaults to text presentation.

Often used in <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>, where one or more characters in the sequence have text and emoji presentation, but otherwise default to text (black and white) display.

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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

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 slice of watermelon, showing&nbsp;its rich pink flesh, black seeds, and green rind.

Can be used to reference the flag of the&nbsp;<a href="/flag-palestinian-territories">Palestinian Territories</a>.

Watermelon

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 sunflower, a tall, round&nbsp;flower with large yellow petals. Depicted as a single, vertical sunflower with a large, dark-brown center on a green stem.

Commonly used for <a href="/mothers-day/">Mother&rsquo;s Day</a>&nbsp;and other special occasions. May be more generally used to convey such sentiments happiness and love. Also used as a yellow accent color and in association with summer and farming.

Not to be confused with <a href="/blossom/">🌼 Blossom</a>, which is yellow on many platforms.

Sunflower

A yellow face with a party hat blowing a party horn as confetti floats around its head. Used for celebrating joyous occasions (such as <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&#39;s Eve</a> or <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a>) and enjoying good times more generally.

Apple&rsquo;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/kissing-face-with-closed-eyes/">😚&nbsp;Kissing Face With Closed Eyes</a>.

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Face with Party Horn and Party Hat

Yee-haw! A yellow smiley wearing a wide-brimmed, brown-leather cowboy hat. Its smile varies across platforms.&nbsp;May convey a sense of exuberance, whimsy, confidence, adventure, or other sentiments.

Several vendors, including Apple, feature&nbsp;the same expression as their <a href="/grinning-face-with-big-eyes/">😃 Grinning Face With Big Eyes</a>.

Face with Cowboy Hat

A yellow face with eyes closed and mouth wide open covered by a hand. Captured mid-yawn, this may represent having insufficient sleep, or to imply boredom with a person or topic.

Not to be confused with&nbsp;<a href="/sleepy-face/">😪 Sleepy Face</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="/sleeping-face/">😴 Sleeping Face</a>, which often convey actually being asleep, or&nbsp;<a href="/tired-face/">😫 Tired Face</a> which is tired as in &quot;fed up&quot;.

Yawning Face

A yellow face wearing a white surgical mask, as used by <a href="/health-worker/">health workers</a> in <a href="/hospital/">hospitals</a>&nbsp;as well as the general public during a <a href="/coronavirus/">pandemic</a>. May be worn&nbsp;to avoid <a href="/face-with-thermometer/">sickness</a> or spreading airborne diseases.

Displayed with closed eyes on most platforms. Google,&nbsp;and WhatsApp show&nbsp;this emoji with neutral eyes.&nbsp;Apple changed this emoji to show with smiling eyes&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/mask-wearing-emoji-now-smiles/">in iOS 14.2 and above</a>, as did Microsoft in their <a href="/microsoft/windows-11-november-2021-update/">Windows 11 November 2021</a> update.

In 2020, this emoji became <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/spread-of-the-coronavirus-emoji/">primarily used</a> in reference to <a href="/coronavirus/">Coronavirus / COVID-19</a>.

Face with Medical Mask

The reddish-brown, acorn-shaped chestnut, tapering to a sharp tip from its light brown base on most platforms. A popular roasted snack associated with autumn and Christmas.&nbsp;

May be used for other edible nuts (e.g., walnuts) or sexual slang.

Chestnut

A yellow face with a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth on most platforms, with stars for eyes, as if seeing a beloved celebrity. Color of stars widely varies by platform, though commonly gold or red. May express that someone or something is amazing, fascinating, impressive, or exciting.

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Grinning Face with Star Eyes

A sickly-green face with concerned eyes and puffed, often red cheeks, as if holding back vomit. May represent physical illness or general disgust. Not to be confused with <a href="/face-vomiting/">🤮 Face Vomiting</a>.

Differs from other smileys conveying sickness, including <a href="/face-with-thermometer/">🤒 Face With Thermometer</a> (used especially for colds and flus) and <a href="/face-with-head-bandage/">🤕 Face With Head-Bandage</a> (physical injury).

Nauseated Face

A Tyrannosaurus rex, a massive, meat-eating dinosaur with huge jaws, tiny arms, and a long tail. Depicted as a green <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus">tyrannosaur</a> standing on its hind lefts facing left, often with a textured back, sharp teeth, and clawed toes.

May be used to represent various dinosaurs, including raptors. See also <a href="/sauropod/">🦕 Sauropod</a>.

May also be used to call a person a dinosaur, i.e. imply that they are old-fashioned or out-of-touch with modern sentiments.

<a href="/google/android-8.0/t-rex/">Google&rsquo;s</a> T-rex used to look somewhat like&nbsp;a velociraptor, though the design has since changed. <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/t-rex/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> T-Rex was previously red, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-fall-creators-update/t-rex/">Microsoft&#39;s</a> brown, and&nbsp;<a href="/facebook/2.1/t-rex/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> only a green head with open jaws.

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