🤔 Meaning – Thinking Face Emoji

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This serious smiley face with a raised eyebrow and palm-resting cheek reflects extreme concentration or concern. Thinking Emoji is used to indicate thinking, deep thought or to question the intelligence of a written statement. With help of this smiley you can show that you are thinking about some words or actions, or are concerned about something seen or heard and have not yet decided how to react. This facial expression is fairly neutral and can be used in everyday conversations.

The Thinking Face Emoji appeared in 2015, and now is mainly known as the Thinking Emoji, but also may be reffered as the Thinking Symbol. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Question Face.

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Thinking Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F914
Unicode name: Thinking Face
Category: Smileys & People / Neutral Faces
Keywords: face, neutral
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F914
Decimal HTML Entity: 🤔
Hex HTML Entity: 🤔
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83E 0xDD14
Wikipedia: n/a
Version: Unicode 8.0
Year: 2015 (see all emoji of 2015)

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🌐 Thinking Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	nachdenkendes Gesicht	Gesicht, nachdenken, nachdenklich
Français	visage en pleine réflexion	réflexion, visage
Русский	думает	задумчивость, лицо, пальцы, размышления
Español	cara pensativa	cara, pensando
Italiano	faccina concentrata	concentrarsi, faccina, pensare
Português	rosto pensativo	mão no queixo, pensando, rosto
Polski	myśląca twarz	buźka, myślę, zamyślony, zastanawiam się

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How to type Thinking Face Emoji

There are number of methods to type Thinking Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🤔 emoji

It's very easy to get Thinking Face Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🤔 meaning and look at 🤔 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

🤔 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.