🤓Nerd Face Emoji

Unicode added 🤓 nerd face in Emoji 1.0 (2015), filed under Smileys & Emotion → With Glasses. Its codepoint is U+1F913, and it is tagged brainy, clever and expert.

What 🤓 nerd face means

Eyewear as attitude. 😎 claims composure or a small brag, 🧐 signals scrutiny and does duty as a monocle-wearing 'well, actually', and 🤓 has flipped hardest: once a self-deprecating tag for enthusiasm, it now mostly mocks someone for being pedantic online. Face with monocle was added in 2017, well after the other two.

Unicode tags this one brainy, clever and expert and files it under Smileys & Emotion → With Glasses.

Copy variants

Different presentations of the same character — useful when a platform renders one form and not the other.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F913`
HTML hex	`🤓`
HTML decimal	`🤓`
CSS	`\1F913`
JavaScript	`\u{1F913}`
Python	`\U0001F913`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDD13`
Rust	`\u{1f913}`
Swift	`\u{1F913}`
PHP	`\u{1F913}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A4%93`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A4 93`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DD13`
Base64	`8J+kkw==`
Decimal	`129299`
Introduced	Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Keywords

brainy
clever
expert
face
geek
gifted
glasses
intelligent
nerd
smart

Appears in these collections

How to type 🤓

Windows — press Win + . and search “nerd face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “brainy”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f913 and Enter.
HTML — paste 🤓.

How 🤓 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🤓Apple
🤓Segoe
🤓Noto
🤓System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🤓 nerd face emoji mean?+

🤓 is the nerd face emoji, tagged brainy, clever and expert. Eyewear as attitude. 😎 claims composure or a small brag, 🧐 signals scrutiny and does duty as a monocle-wearing 'well, actually', and 🤓 has flipped hardest: once a self-deprecating tag for enthusiasm, it now mostly mocks someone for being pedantic online. Face with monocle was added in 2017, well after the other two.

What is the Unicode code for 🤓?+

nerd face is U+1F913. In HTML that is 🤓, in CSS \1F913, and in JavaScript \u{1F913}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🤓 emoji added?+

nerd face got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🤓 nerd face.