A thinking kaomoji is a text face, like (・・？), that shows someone pondering, puzzled or unsure using only keyboard characters. This page has 100 thinking kaomoji sorted into thinking, confused, curious, hmm and doubtful, each with a meaning and a build-your-own box.
Thinking, confused and curious: which face fits
Thinking faces differ by how sure you are: a calm hmm, a puzzled question, curious wide eyes or open doubt. Pick the group that matches the message you are about to send.
Calm thinking (18)
Quiet pondering for when you are weighing something. Reads well in chat while you weigh a decision.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a small caret mouth — quiet pondering.
- Round dot eyes with a flat mouth, one arm reaching out — quiet pondering.
- Round dot eyes with a small caret mouth — quiet pondering.
- Calm closed eyes with a wavy mouth, a musical note — quiet pondering.
- Calm closed eyes with a wavy mouth — quiet pondering.
- Plain dot eyes with a wavy mouth, one arm reaching out — quiet pondering.
- Round dot eyes with a flat mouth, a musical note — quiet pondering.
- Plain dot eyes with a long flat mouth — quiet pondering.
- Plain dot eyes with a long flat mouth, a musical note — quiet pondering.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a flat mouth, a musical note — quiet pondering.
- Plain dot eyes with a small caret mouth, a musical note — quiet pondering.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a small caret mouth, a musical note — quiet pondering.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a flat mouth — quiet pondering.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a flat mouth, one arm reaching out — quiet pondering.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a wavy mouth — quiet pondering.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a small caret mouth, one arm reaching out — quiet pondering.
- Plain dot eyes with a long flat mouth, one arm reaching out — quiet pondering.
- Plain dot eyes with a wavy mouth, a musical note — quiet pondering.
Confused and puzzled (18)
For when something does not add up. Reads well in questions and troubleshooting threads.
- Wide round eyes with a wavy mouth, one arm reaching out — puzzled and unsure.
- Wide round eyes with a wobbly mouth — puzzled and unsure.
- Curious half-moon eyes with a small caret mouth — puzzled and unsure.
- Wide round eyes with a wobbly mouth, a sweat drop — puzzled and unsure.
- Big circle eyes with a round open mouth — puzzled and unsure.
- Curious half-moon eyes with a wobbly mouth, a sweat drop — puzzled and unsure.
- Plain dot eyes with a wobbly mouth, one arm reaching out — puzzled and unsure.
- Curious half-moon eyes with a round open mouth, one arm reaching out — puzzled and unsure.
- Plain dot eyes with a wobbly mouth, a sweat drop — puzzled and unsure.
- Big circle eyes with a small caret mouth — puzzled and unsure.
- Plain dot eyes with a small caret mouth, one arm reaching out — puzzled and unsure.
- Plain dot eyes with a round open mouth, a sweat drop — puzzled and unsure.
- Curious half-moon eyes with a wavy mouth — puzzled and unsure.
- Plain dot eyes with a wavy mouth, one arm reaching out — puzzled and unsure.
- Big circle eyes with a wobbly mouth — puzzled and unsure.
- Plain dot eyes with a small caret mouth, a sweat drop — puzzled and unsure.
- Curious half-moon eyes with a round open mouth — puzzled and unsure.
- Big circle eyes with a small caret mouth, one arm reaching out — puzzled and unsure.
Curious (16)
Wide eyes for questions and wonder. Reads well in asking about something new.
- Wide shiny eyes with a wide round mouth, a small wave — curious and interested.
- Big circle eyes with a round open mouth — curious and interested.
- Wide shiny eyes with a gentle smile — curious and interested.
- Wide round eyes with a gentle smile — curious and interested.
- Big circle eyes with a wide round mouth — curious and interested.
- Curious half-moon eyes with a round open mouth — curious and interested.
- Big circle eyes with a wide round mouth, a small wave — curious and interested.
- Wide round eyes with a round open mouth, a small wave — curious and interested.
- Big circle eyes with a gentle smile, a small wave — curious and interested.
- Curious half-moon eyes with a round open mouth, one arm reaching out — curious and interested.
- Curious half-moon eyes with a wide round mouth — curious and interested.
- Curious half-moon eyes with a gentle smile, one arm reaching out — curious and interested.
- Wide round eyes with a cat-style mouth — curious and interested.
- Wide shiny eyes with a wide round mouth — curious and interested.
- Wide shiny eyes with a cat-style mouth — curious and interested.
- Wide shiny eyes with a cat-style mouth, one arm reaching out — curious and interested.
Hmm and doubtful (18)
Side-eye and flat mouths for doubt. Reads well in replies where you are unconvinced.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a wobbly mouth, one arm reaching out — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a small caret mouth, one arm reaching out — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Plain dot eyes with a wobbly mouth, a sweat drop — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Side-eye with a small caret mouth — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Raised-brow eyes with a small caret mouth — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Raised-brow eyes with a wobbly mouth — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Plain dot eyes with a small caret mouth, one arm reaching out — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a long flat mouth, a sweat drop — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a flat mouth — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Raised-brow eyes with a long flat mouth, one arm reaching out — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a small caret mouth, a sweat drop — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Plain dot eyes with a small caret mouth, a sweat drop — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Side-eye with a flat mouth, a sweat drop — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a wobbly mouth, a sweat drop — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Raised-brow eyes with a wobbly mouth, one arm reaching out — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Side-eye with a long flat mouth — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Plain dot eyes with a long flat mouth, a sweat drop — doubtful and unconvinced.
- Plain dot eyes with a flat mouth, one arm reaching out — doubtful and unconvinced.
Sleepy and slow thinking (14)
Half-closed eyes for slow thoughts. Reads well in late-night chats.
- Calm closed eyes with a wavy mouth, a musical note — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Calm closed eyes with a small smile — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Calm closed eyes with a flat mouth — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Small round eyes with a flat mouth — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a cat-style mouth, a musical note — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a cat-style mouth — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a small smile, a musical note — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Calm closed eyes with a flat mouth, a musical note — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a wavy mouth, a musical note — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Flat sleepy eyes with a flat mouth, a musical note — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Small round eyes with a wavy mouth — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Small round eyes with a cat-style mouth — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Calm closed eyes with a small smile, a musical note — slow, sleepy thinking.
- Small round eyes with a small smile — slow, sleepy thinking.
Aha and idea faces (16)
Bright eyes for a sudden idea. Reads well in brainstorm threads.
- Big circle eyes with a wide round mouth, sparkles on both sides — a sudden idea.
- Wide shiny eyes with a round open mouth, a small wave — a sudden idea.
- Wide round eyes with a wide round mouth, sparkles on both sides — a sudden idea.
- Wide round eyes with a wide round mouth — a sudden idea.
- Big circle eyes with a round open mouth — a sudden idea.
- Wide shiny eyes with a gentle smile, sparkles on both sides — a sudden idea.
- Big circle eyes with a round open mouth, sparkles on both sides — a sudden idea.
- Wide round eyes with a round open mouth, sparkles on both sides — a sudden idea.
- Star eyes with a round open mouth, a small wave — a sudden idea.
- Big circle eyes with a open triangle grin — a sudden idea.
- Star eyes with a round open mouth, sparkles on both sides — a sudden idea.
- Wide round eyes with a gentle smile, sparkles on both sides — a sudden idea.
- Wide round eyes with a open triangle grin — a sudden idea.
- Star eyes with a gentle smile, sparkles on both sides — a sudden idea.
- Star eyes with a open triangle grin, sparkles on both sides — a sudden idea.
- Big circle eyes with a gentle smile — a sudden idea.
Build your own
Pick an eye pair, a mouth and arms, then paste them together inside brackets. Each part copies on its own.
Eyes
Mouths
Arms and extras
Mouth parts and their code points
The mouth and eye characters come from the Unicode database; the names below are Unicode’s own.
| Part | Code point | Unicode name |
|---|---|---|
| _ | U+005F | LOW LINE |
| ー | U+30FC | KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK |
| ‸ | U+2038 | CARET |
| ～ | U+FF5E | FULLWIDTH TILDE |
| ﹏ | U+FE4F | WAVY LOW LINE |
| o | U+006F | LATIN SMALL LETTER O |
| O | U+004F | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O |
| ω | U+03C9 | GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA |
Where these faces render
Kaomoji are ordinary text, so they paste into chat, captions and documents. Some characters, such as ᗜ or ヮ, may show as empty boxes on older devices. We have not tested every face on every phone, so a face that renders badly for you is a font gap, not a mistake in the page.
Frequently asked questions
What does (・・？) mean?
Two dot eyes and a question mark: a plain, curious or puzzled face.
Which kaomoji means hmm?
A flat mouth with side-eye, such as (¬_¬), reads as a doubtful hmm.
How do I show confusion?
Use a wobbly mouth with wide eyes, then add a sweat drop for extra confusion.
Why does a part show as a box?
Your device may lack a font for it; swap that part for a plain one such as _ or o.
More faces are in cute kaomoji, and the full library lives at Fancymoji.
