U+1F914 "🤔" Thinking Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🤔
U+1F914 "🤔" Thinking Face is a popular emoji depicting a face with a raised eyebrow and a hand on its chin, symbolizing deep thought, skepticism, or contemplation. Introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, it is commonly used in digital communication to indicate that the sender is pondering a question, considering a complex idea, or expressing doubt about a statement. Its design varies slightly across platforms, often showing a yellow face with a neutral or mildly quizzical expression, making it a versatile tool for conveying introspection or playful uncertainty in texts and social media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F914 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Thinking Face |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🤔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🤔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F914 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd14 |