Nerd Face Emoji
Thick glasses and buck teeth. Online it mostly marks a reply as pedantic — often the sender's own.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Nerd Face emoji mean?
Thick glasses and buck teeth. Online it mostly marks a reply as pedantic — often the sender's own.
Complicated. Its original sense was affectionate, but online it now mostly mocks pedantry, and it is often attached to a correction the sender is making about themselves.
How to use 🤓 naturally
Prefacing a technical correction, or mocking one somebody else made.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 🤓
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Nerd Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Thick glasses and prominent teeth, a caricature old enough to feel dated. It is used far more for self-deprecation than as an insult.
- Today
How its use evolved
Prefacing a technical correction, or mocking one somebody else made.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🤓 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Well actually, it is a code point 🤓
Sorry in advance for this correction 🤓
Spent an hour on the footnote 🤓
When to use it
Using 🤓 clearly
Prefacing a technical correction, or mocking one somebody else made. It lands as nerd face emoji or 🤓 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the nerd face emoji
What does 🤓 mean in a text message?
Thick glasses and buck teeth. Online it mostly marks a reply as pedantic — often the sender's own. Complicated. Its original sense was affectionate, but online it now mostly mocks pedantry, and it is often attached to a correction the sender is making about themselves.
Is 🤓 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are nerd face emoji, 🤓 meaning, nerd emoji meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🤓 look different on another device?
U+1F913 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the nerd face emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🤓 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the nerd face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🤓 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🤓 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F913 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🤓 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤓 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F913 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F913} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%93 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F913
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- nerd face emoji🤓 meaningnerd emoji meaning
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