🤔 Thinking Face
A yellow face with furrowed eyebrows looking upwards with thumb and index finger resting on its chin. Intended to show a person pondering or deep in thought. Often used to question or scorn something or someone, as if saying Hmm, I don't know about that. Tone varies, including earnest, playful, puzzled, skeptical, and mocking. May be paired with 💭 Thought Balloon or 💡 Light Bulb to represent thinking, (having) ideas, and learning. Joins 🤗 Hugging Face, 🤫 Shushing Face, and 🤭 Face With Hand Over Mouth as one of the few smileys featuring a hand.
🤔 Thinking Face
Also known as: Chin Thumb, Throwing Shade, Thinker
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Emojipedia | :thinking_face: | |
GitHub | :thinking: |
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A face shown with a single finger and thumb resting on the chin, glancing upward. Used to indicate thinking, or deep thought. Can be paired http://emojipedia.org/thinking-face/
- To have or hold as a (personal) opinion; judge; think.
- To have as opinion, belief, or idea.
- To think of doing.
- To be of the opinion (that).
- Judge or regard; look upon; judge
- Be of the opinion that.
- To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard. (Source Webster 1913)
- To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- Part of the body at the front of the head
- The face is a central organ of sense and is also very central in the expression of emotion among humans and among numerous other species.
- Faces are the central sense organ complexes, for those animals that have one, normally on the ventral surface of the head.
- The front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
- The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.