🧠
Brain Emoji
Copy 🧠 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 🧠 mean?
An anatomical brain. Intelligence, thinking, or an idea.
🧠 is the brain emoji. It belongs to the People & Body group, in the body parts set, and was approved as part of Emoji 5.0.
People also search for it as intelligent, smart.
How to use 🧠
Used for cleverness and for mental effort. Also appears in the “big brain” meme format, usually sarcastically.
Click the copy button above to put 🧠 on your clipboard, then paste it anywhere Unicode is supported — WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Slack, email, or a document. On Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :brain: directly.
Good to know
Added in 2017. Before that people used 🤔 or 💡 for the same purpose, neither of which quite fit.
Technical details
| Name | Brain |
|---|---|
| Character | 🧠 |
| Codepoint | U+1F9E0 |
| HTML entity | 🧠 |
| CSS code | \1F9E0 |
| Shortcode | :brain: |
| Category | People & Body |
| Subgroup | body parts |
| Emoji version | Emoji 5.0 |
| Keywords | intelligent, smart |