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🤔Thinking Face Emoji
🤔 thinking face is encoded at U+1F914 and shipped with Emoji 1.0 (2015). Unicode files it under Smileys & Emotion → With Hands, alongside 6 related emojis.
What 🤔 thinking face means
Hands over the mouth do the work of a stage whisper - gasping at gossip, covering a laugh, or admitting something you probably should not have said. 🤔 has drifted from genuine deliberation into pointed skepticism, the emoji equivalent of a slow blink. 🫢 and 🫣, added in 2021, cover the peeking-through-fingers reaction that older faces could not.
Unicode tags this one chin, consider and face and files it under Smileys & Emotion → With Hands.
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+1F914 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🤔 | |
| HTML decimal | 🤔 | |
| CSS | \1F914 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F914} | |
| Python | \U0001F914 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD14 | |
| Rust | \u{1f914} | |
| Swift | \u{1F914} | |
| PHP | \u{1F914} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A4%94 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 94 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD14 | |
| Base64 | 8J+klA== | |
| Decimal | 129300 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🤔
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “thinking face”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “chin”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f914and 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 🤔 thinking face emoji mean?+
🤔 is the thinking face emoji, tagged chin, consider and face. Hands over the mouth do the work of a stage whisper - gasping at gossip, covering a laugh, or admitting something you probably should not have said. 🤔 has drifted from genuine deliberation into pointed skepticism, the emoji equivalent of a slow blink. 🫢 and 🫣, added in 2021, cover the peeking-through-fingers reaction that older faces could not.
What is the Unicode code for 🤔?+
thinking face is U+1F914. In HTML that is 🤔, in CSS \1F914, and in JavaScript \u{1F914}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🤔 emoji added?+
thinking 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.
Related emojis
More emojis from With Hands in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🤔 thinking face.