🤔 Thinking Face

🤔 Thinking Face rests a hand on the chin with one eyebrow raised. Literally it means "let me think". In practice it is just as often a polite way of expressing doubt: a raised eyebrow at a claim that does not add up.

Useful for asking a question without sounding confrontational, and for signalling scepticism without saying it outright.

• Cheaper than last year 🤔
• Not sure that adds up 🤔

• 🤔❓ – Something was unclear, a polite follow-up.
• 🤔🫢 – Thinking Face and Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth
• 🤔🤫 – Thinking Face with Shushing Face
• 🤔🫣 – Thinking Face plus Face with Peeking Eye
• 🤔🤭 – Thinking Face and Face with Hand Over Mouth
• 🤔🤗 – Thinking Face with Smiling Face with Open Hands

Easy to mix up with 🫢 Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth, 🤫 Shushing Face or 🫣 Face with Peeking Eye. They look alike but do not mean the same thing – when in doubt, check the name.