Thinking Emoji Copy Paste

Tap the thinking face to copy it, or take a raised eyebrow, a shrug, :-/ or a combo.

🤔Thinking faceU+1F914Ready to copy

60 thinking faces and combos. Tap one to copy it.

Filed under think, hmm, ponder or wonder 4

Doubt, dunno, maybe and huh 7

Filed under question 6

Brains, ideas and clues 16

Thinking text faces 14

Thinking combos 13

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How it works

Thinking face, U+1F914, is the big tile at the top: thinking emoji copy and paste takes one tap. Under it are 59 more ways to stall: the raised eyebrow, shrugs, question marks, text faces like :-/ and combos such as Sleep on it.

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Search by hmm, idk or idea

Search reads Unicode names and CLDR search words. Hmm finds Thinking face and Face with raised eyebrow, the only two emoji with the word. Idk finds the three shrugs, idea finds Thought balloon and Light bulb, and clue finds Puzzle piece and Fingerprint. Pick a skin tone under More options and eight tiles and four combos follow it.

What the thought bubble is made of

The kaomoji （´-`）.｡oO( ... ) trails four characters: a full stop, a halfwidth ideographic full stop, a small o and a capital O. Type your own thought where the dots are. Its brackets are fullwidth, so it needs a Japanese font. :-/ and the other sideways faces are plain ASCII. Fingerprint, Emoji 16.0, is the newest tile, so older fonts miss it first.

Tips

Face with monocle has no thinking word in CLDR at all: its list is classy, fancy, rich, stuffy and wealthy.
CLDR spells the sound two ways: hmm, two m's, for Thinking face, and hm for Confused face.

Questions and answers

Is there more than one thinking emoji?

One by name. Thinking face dates from Emoji 1.0, which Unicode's chart puts in 2015, and chin, one of its eight CLDR search words, is listed for no other emoji. Three more carry a thinking word: Face with raised eyebrow, Confused face and Thought balloon.

Why does the thinking face ignore the skin tone I picked?

It has a hand, but Unicode files it as a smiley, in the subgroup face-hand with six others, Shushing face and Saluting face among them. No entry in the Smileys and emotion group has skin tone forms.

Which text face means thinking?

Wikipedia's emoticon list pairs :-/, :/ and :S, skeptical or undecided, with Thinking face. It gives (?_?) and (・・? as confusion and, from a Japanese message board, （´-`）.｡oO( ... ) as thinking and m9(・∀・) as a flash of intuition. The other seven are ours.

All 60 thinking faces and combos

Filed under think, hmm, ponder or wonder 4

Confused face U+1F615. One m short: CLDR lists hm here, not hmm, along with dunno and befuddled. Emoji 1.0.
Face with raised eyebrow U+1F928. Shares hmm with Thinking face, and no third emoji has it. The rest of its list is doubt: skeptic, distrust, disbelief. Emoji 5.0.
Thinking face U+1F914. The one the keyword names. Eight CLDR search words, and chin is listed for no other emoji. Unicode files it in the subgroup face-hand. Emoji 1.0.
Thought balloon U+1F4AD. Not a face, but the only other emoji with a think word: think, thoughts and wonder, plus idea, daydream and decisions. Emoji 1.0.

Doubt, dunno, maybe and huh 7

Confounded face U+1F616. Also filed under confused, though most of its words sit closer to cringe and frustrated. Emoji 0.6.
Face with diagonal mouth U+1FAE4. CLDR lists doubt, doubtful, unsure and skeptical, and then whatever. Emoji 14.0.
Face with spiral eyes U+1F635 U+200D U+1F4AB. Here for one word, confused. The rest are dizzy, woozy and hypnotized. A sequence: Face with crossed-out eyes, a joiner and Dizzy. Emoji 13.1.
Man shrugging U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. Person shrugging joined to the male sign. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 4.0.
Person shrugging U+1F937. The answer when thinking fails. CLDR lists idk, dunno, maybe and guess. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 3.0.
Pinched fingers U+1F90C. The only emoji CLDR files under huh, and it adds what and interrogation. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 13.0.
Woman shrugging U+1F937 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. Person shrugging joined to the female sign. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 4.0.

Show all 60 thinking faces and combos (49 more)

Filed under question 6

Exclamation question mark U+2049 U+FE0F. U+2049, which needs U+FE0F to draw as emoji. CLDR lists interrobang. Emoji 0.6.
Man raising hand U+1F64B U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. Person raising hand joined to the male sign. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 4.0.
Person raising hand U+1F64B. CLDR lists question, know and pick. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 0.6.
Red question mark U+2753. CLDR names the colour. The formal Unicode name is Black question mark ornament. Emoji 0.6.
White question mark U+2754. Formally White question mark ornament. CLDR adds outlined. Emoji 0.6.
Woman raising hand U+1F64B U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. Person raising hand joined to the female sign. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 4.0.

Brains, ideas and clues 16

Abacus U+1F9EE. CLDR lists calculation and calculator. Emoji 11.0.
Balance scale U+2696 U+FE0F. For weighing it up. CLDR lists balance, weight and justice. Emoji 1.0.
Books U+1F4DA. CLDR lists study, knowledge and library. Emoji 0.6.
Brain U+1F9E0. Three search words: brain, intelligent and smart. Emoji 5.0.
Detective U+1F575 U+FE0F. CLDR lists sleuth and spy. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 0.7.
Exploding head U+1F92F. For a thought that was too big. CLDR lists mind, blown and mindblown. Emoji 5.0.
Face in clouds U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F. CLDR lists absentminded. A sequence: Face without mouth, a joiner and Fog. Emoji 13.1.
Face with monocle U+1F9D0. None of CLDR’s words for it is about thinking: classy, fancy, rich, stuffy and wealthy. Search for monocle. Emoji 5.0.
Fingerprint U+1FAC6. CLDR lists clue, mystery and forensics. The newest tile on the page. Emoji 16.0.
Hourglass not done U+23F3. For a thought still in progress. CLDR lists waiting, flowing and sand. Emoji 0.6.
Light bulb U+1F4A1. One of only two emoji CLDR files under idea. The other is Thought balloon. Emoji 0.6.
Magnifying glass tilted left U+1F50D. CLDR lists search, science and lab. Emoji 0.6.
Magnifying glass tilted right U+1F50E. The mirror image, by name. CLDR gives it one word the other glass lacks: contact. Emoji 0.6.
Nerd face U+1F913. CLDR lists smart, clever, gifted and expert. Emoji 1.0.
Owl U+1F989. CLDR lists wise, and also ornithology. Emoji 3.0.
Puzzle piece U+1F9E9. CLDR lists clue, jigsaw and interlocking. Emoji 11.0.

Thinking text faces 14

(-_-?) Eyes shut, question mark up: thinking with the lights off. ASCII
(?_?) Question marks for eyes. Recorded by the same list as confusion
(•_•)? Bullets for eyes and a question mark left outside the face
(・_・ヾ Scratching its head with a Katakana voiced iteration mark, U+30FE
(・へ・) The mouth is the Hiragana letter he, which makes a frown of concentration
(・・? Two Katakana middle dots and a question mark, with no closing bracket. Also recorded as confusion
(￣～￣;) Fullwidth macrons for eyes, a Fullwidth tilde for a mouth and a semicolon of sweat
:-/ Wikipedia’s list records it as skeptical, undecided or hesitant, and pairs it with Thinking face. ASCII
:/ The same face without a nose
φ(・_・) Working it out on paper: the Greek letter phi is the pen
m9(・∀・) A message-board kaomoji that Wikipedia records as a flash of intuition. The mouth is For all, the logic symbol
（´-`）.｡oO( ... ) From a Japanese message board, and recorded by Wikipedia as thinking. The trail .｡oO is a thought bubble: put your own words where the dots are
.｡oO(?) The thought bubble by itself, holding one question mark
:S An S for a mouth, from the same row of that list

Thinking combos 13

Doing the sums Thinking face, then abacus. CLDR lists calculation for Abacus.
Got it Thought balloon, then light bulb. The two emoji CLDR files under idea, as a before and an after.
Hmm Thinking face, then thought balloon. The only two emoji with thinking or thought in their names: the face, then the thought.
Looking into it Thinking face, then magnifying glass tilted left. The reply that buys a day.
No idea Thinking face, then person shrugging. Thought about it, then gave up. The shrug follows the skin tone you pick.
Not convinced Thinking face, then face with raised eyebrow. Both of CLDR’s hmm emoji at once.
Overthinking it Thinking face, then thought balloon 3 times. One face, three balloons.
Quick question Person raising hand, then red question mark. CLDR files both under question. The hand follows the skin tone you pick.
Sleep on it Thinking face, then ZZZ. CLDR lists sleep and night for ZZZ.
Still thinking Thinking face, then hourglass not done. CLDR lists waiting for the hourglass.
Thought about it: no Thinking face, then thumbs down. Same deliberation, other verdict. The thumb takes the skin tone.
Thought about it: yes Thinking face, then thumbs up. The thumb follows the skin tone you pick.
Weighing it up Thinking face, then balance scale. One thought, two sides.

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 33 emoji, their names, code points, sequences, skin tones, subgroups 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. 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). Group one is every emoji with a thinking word in any form (think, thought, hm, hmm, ponder, wonder, consider): 4 emoji. Group two is every other emoji listed under doubt, doubtful, unsure, skeptical, dunno, idk, maybe, guess, confused or huh: 7. Group three is every emoji listed under question: 6. The brains, ideas and clues are this site's own choice, each tied to the subject by a CLDR word quoted in its note. The formal character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), which also checked every character in the text faces. 7 text faces are recorded at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons: :-/, :/ and :S (skeptical, annoyed, undecided, uneasy, hesitant, paired there with Thinking face), (?_?) and (・・? (confusion), and from its table of emoticons from a Japanese message board （´-`）.｡oO( ... ) (thinking) and m9(・∀・) (flash of intuition). The other 7 text faces and the 13 combos are our own arrangements under our own names. The year 2015 for Emoji 1.0 is from Unicode's Emoji Versions chart (https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-versions.html). All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work (the selection, the combo names and the wording are ours; emoji names, sequences and search words come from Unicode's data files and CLDR, under the Unicode License v3; facts from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in our own words and credited in source)