A yellow face smiling with thick, black-rimmed eyeglasses and buck teeth on most platforms. Styled after a stereotypical nerd, with buck teeth a racist caricature historically mocking East Asians. Some feature white-taped glasses, another nerd trope. Smile and glasses vary across platforms.
Meaning varies, but often used as a self-deprecating but positive way to express or demonstrate someone is being a nerd, i.e., exceptionally technical, knowledgeable, or excited about something, from school to fashion to sports. Also used to represent eyeglasses or someone wearing them more generally.
😎 Smiling Face With Sunglasses wears similarly shaped sunglasses.
Nerd Face was approved as part of Unic
Nerdy 🤓
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face smiling with thick, black-rimmed eyeglasses and buck teeth on most platforms. Styled after a stereotypical nerd, with buck teeth a racist caricature historically mocking East Asians. Some feature white-taped glasses, another nerd trope. Smile and glasses vary across platforms.
Meaning varies, but often used as a self-deprecating but positive way to express or demonstrate someone is being a nerd, i.e., exceptionally technical, knowledgeable, or excited about something, from school to fashion to sports. Also used to represent eyeglasses or someone wearing them more generally.
😎 Smiling Face With Sunglasses wears similarly shaped sunglasses.
Nerd Face was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015
and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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