Nerd face Emoji

Smileys

A yellow face wearing thick, black-rimmed glasses and buck teeth, showing a slight grin. It captures the stereotypical look of a bookworm or someone deeply immersed in their hobbies.

Usage Context

Widely used to signal that someone is acting smart, sharing a fact, or correcting a mistake. It is often deployed ironically to mock over-eager behavior or unironically when expressing genuine excitement about a niche topic. People frequently pair it with the books emoji or the laptop emoji to emphasize a studious vibe.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2015, the nerd face was designed to fill a gap in digital expression for users wanting to identify as 'geeks' or 'nerds.' Its design draws heavily from the classic 'nerd' caricature popularized in mid-20th-century pop culture.

Details

Glyph

🤓

Unicode

U+1F913

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f913:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD13;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-glasses

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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