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 Twitter/X

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-glasses

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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