Brain Emoji Copy and Paste

Press Copy for the brain, or pick a thinking emoji, an ASCII brain or a combo like Brainstorm below.

Brain Emoji Copy and Paste

🧠BrainU+1F9E0Ready to copy

56 brains. Tap one to copy it.

Brain and the thinking emoji 11

Filed beside it: organs and science 7

Brain as plain text 8

One-line thoughts 4

ASCII brains 5

Brain combos 21

Next step Thinking face and 59 more hmms, doubts and text facesNerd face, the scientist and 12 clever combos

How it works

The big character up top is Brain, U+1F9E0, and Copy puts it on your clipboard. It is the only character in Unicode with brain in its name, so brain emoji copy and paste carries on below with 55 tiles built around it.

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Find a thought, a character or a combo

Search reads names and search words. Smart finds Brain, Nerd face and three more, psychology finds the two psi letters, chinese finds five characters and japanese three. Mind leads to Exploding head: CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files mind there and gives Brain only brain, intelligent and smart.

Where the ASCII brains hold their shape

The five drawings are plain keyboard characters, 27 columns wide at most. They keep their shape only where text is monospaced, such as a code block. In Thought bubble, type over your idea and keep the line the same length.

Tips
  • Where a name field refuses emoji, the plain text group has brain as one character: θ„‘ in simplified Chinese, θ…¦ in traditional, θ„³ in Japanese.
  • The newest tiles are Face in clouds and Face with spiral eyes, Emoji 13.1, and Pea brain, whose pea pod needs Emoji 15.0.

Questions and answers

What does the brain emoji mean?

Its Unicode name is simply Brain, and CLDR files it under three search words: brain, intelligent and smart. It sits with the body parts, after Nose and before Anatomical heart and Lungs. It takes no skin tones and has no text form.

When did the brain emoji come out?

In Emoji 5.0, the same version as Exploding head and Zombie. Anatomical heart and Lungs, the two emoji CLDR files under organ, came later, in Emoji 13.0.

Is there a mind emoji or a thinking emoji?

Not by those names. CLDR files mind under Exploding head, thinking under Thinking face and think under Thought balloon, one emoji each. Idea leads to Thought balloon and Light bulb. All four are in the first group.

Is there a brain symbol in plain text?

Unicode 18.0 has one character with brain in its name, and it is the emoji. The nearest plain characters are θ„‘, θ…¦ and θ„³, which Unihan defines as brain, and Ξ¨, the Greek letter psi, which Wikipedia lists as the sign for psychology.

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All 56 brains

Brain and the thinking emoji 11

  • Books U+1F4DA. CLDR files it under knowledge and study. Emoji 0.6.
  • Brain U+1F9E0. The only character in Unicode with brain in its name. CLDR files it under three words: brain, intelligent and smart. No skin tones and no text form. Emoji 5.0.
  • Exploding head U+1F92F. Where the word mind leads: CLDR files mind and mindblown here, not under Brain. Same version as the brain. Emoji 5.0.
  • Face in clouds U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F. CLDR files it under absentminded, fog and head. Two emoji joined into one; where the pair is not supported, both show. Emoji 13.1.
  • Face with spiral eyes U+1F635 U+200D U+1F4AB. CLDR files it under confused, dizzy and hypnotized. Emoji 13.1.
  • Light bulb U+1F4A1. The idea. CLDR files idea under this and Thought balloon only. Emoji 0.6.
  • Nerd face U+1F913. Shares smart and intelligent with Brain, and CLDR gives it brainy as well. Emoji 1.0.
  • Owl U+1F989. CLDR files wise here. Emoji 3.0.
  • Puzzle piece U+1F9E9. CLDR files it under puzzle, clue and jigsaw. Emoji 11.0.
  • Thinking face U+1F914. The one emoji CLDR files under thinking, with hmm, ponder and consider. Emoji 1.0.
  • Thought balloon U+1F4AD. The one emoji CLDR files under think. Also under idea, dream and daydream. Emoji 1.0.
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Filed beside it: organs and science 7

  • Anatomical heart U+1FAC0. Printed straight after Brain in Unicode's list. Emoji 13.0.
  • Bone U+1F9B4. Same subgroup, body-parts. CLDR files it under skeleton. Emoji 11.0.
  • DNA U+1F9EC. Filed under science. CLDR gives it gene, genetics and biologist. Emoji 11.0.
  • Lungs U+1FAC1. Printed after Anatomical heart. These two are the only emoji CLDR files under organ. Emoji 13.0.
  • Microscope U+1F52C. Filed under science. CLDR gives it lab and experiment. Emoji 1.0.
  • Skull U+1F480. What the brain lives in. Unicode files it with the faces, not the body parts. Emoji 0.6.
  • Tooth U+1F9B7. Same subgroup. CLDR files it under dentist. Emoji 11.0.

Brain as plain text 8

  • Brain, Japanese U+8133 CJK unified ideograph-8133. Unihan: brain. It lists this as the new Japanese form of U+8166.
  • Brain, simplified Chinese U+8111 CJK unified ideograph-8111. Unihan gives its meaning as brain, and lists it as the simplified form of U+8166. A character, not an emoji, so it takes the colour and size of your words.
  • Brain, traditional Chinese U+8166 CJK unified ideograph-8166. Unihan: brain. The traditional form: Unihan lists U+8111 as its simplified form and U+8133 as its new Japanese form.
  • Brain, variant form U+5318 CJK unified ideograph-5318. Unihan: the brain. It lists this as a variant of U+8166 with the same meaning.
  • Psi, capital U+03A8 Greek capital letter psi. The Greek letter that Wikipedia lists as the sign for the fields of psychology and psychiatry. It goes anywhere letters go.
  • Psi, small U+03C8 Greek small letter psi. The lower-case letter.
  • Think U+601D CJK unified ideograph-601D. Unihan: think, consider, ponder.
  • Wisdom U+667A CJK unified ideograph-667A. Unihan: wisdom, knowledge, intelligence.

One-line thoughts 4

  • brain loading [###-------] 30% A loading bar for a slow morning, keyboard characters only
  • brain.exe has stopped working The error message, for when it has
  • . o O ( hmm ) A thought trail in keyboard characters: change hmm to your own thought
  • ( o_O) . o O ( ? ) A puzzled face with a thought trail

ASCII brains 5

  • Brain from above Two hemispheres and the gap between them, 27 columns wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Brain from the side The folds, with the brainstem at the back. 25 columns wide.
  • Brain in a jar Eight lines, 15 columns. The lid comes off if you delete the first two lines.
  • Light bulb, drawn The idea, eight lines tall and 13 columns wide.
  • Thought bubble Type over your idea and keep the line the same length. Wikipedia gives thought bubble as the name of the balloon that carries thoughts, not speech.

Brain combos 21

  • Bird brain Bird, then brain. The insult, politely.
  • Braaains Zombie, then brain. Zombie and Brain arrived together, in Emoji 5.0.
  • Brain drain Brain, then airplane. The clever ones leaving.
  • Brain fog Brain, then fog. For the days it will not start.
  • Brain freeze Brain, then cold face. Wikipedia gives brain freeze as the everyday name of the cold-stimulus headache, the one from ice cream.
  • Brain power Brain, then high voltage. Charged.
  • Brain teaser Brain, then puzzle piece. Puzzle piece needs Emoji 11.0.
  • Brainchild Brain, then baby. An idea and whose it was.
  • Brains and brawn Brain, then flexed biceps. Both.
  • Brainstorm Brain, then cloud with lightning and rain. An advertising executive, Alex F. Osborn, popularised the word. The people in his sessions named them after using the brain to storm a problem.
  • Brainwash Brain, then soap. Soap needs Emoji 11.0.
  • Brainwave Brain, then water wave. A sudden good idea.
  • Galaxy brain Milky way, then brain. No emoji is named galaxy. Milky way is the nearest.
  • Hare-brained Rabbit, then brain. Unicode has no hare, so Rabbit stands in.
  • Left brain, right brain Triangular ruler, then brain, then artist palette. A ruler on one side and a palette on the other.
  • Mental note Brain, then memo. Noted.
  • Mind blown Brain, then collision. For when Exploding head is one face too many.
  • No thoughts Prohibited, then thought balloon. Head empty.
  • Pea brain Pea pod, then brain. Pea pod needs Emoji 15.0.
  • Pick your brain Pick, then brain. The tool is called pick in Unicode's list.
  • Scatterbrain Brain, then dashing away. Gone again.

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. Brain is U+1F9E0, Emoji 5.0, in the group People & Body, subgroup body-parts, printed after nose and before anatomical heart and lungs. It takes no skin tones and has no text form. UnicodeData.txt 18.0.0 has one character with BRAIN in its name. The search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml, main branch). CLDR lists brain, intelligent and smart for Brain; mind and mindblown for Exploding head; thinking for Thinking face only; think for Thought balloon only; idea for Thought balloon and Light bulb; organ for Anatomical heart and Lungs; brainy for Nerd face. The meanings of the six Han characters are kDefinition values of Unihan 18.0.0, and the simplified, traditional and Japanese forms of the brain character are from Unihan_Variants.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). From Wikipedia: psi as the sign for psychology and psychiatry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi_(Greek)), brain freeze as the everyday name of the cold-stimulus headache (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-stimulus_headache), who popularised the word brainstorming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming) and thought bubble as the name of the balloon that carries thoughts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_balloon). The 5 ASCII drawings, the 4 one-line drawings and the 21 combos are this site's own work; every emoji in a combo is named as emoji-test.txt names it. The Unicode and CLDR files were checked on 2026-09-19 and the four Wikipedia articles on 2026-09-20. Licence: own work