What does 🧐 mean?
A face with a monocle: close inspection, 'hmm, interesting', snooty scrutiny.
Its official Unicode name is FACE WITH MONOCLE and its CLDR short name is "face with monocle" (in Hungarian: "arc monoklival"). It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group and was added in Emoji 5.0 in 2017.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- classy
- face
- fancy
- monocle
- rich
- stuffy
- wealthy
In Hungarian: arc félszemüveggel, gazdag, kifinomult, klasszikus, mérges, szmájli, tehetős, vagyonos
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws 🧐 in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F9D0. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- FACE WITH MONOCLE
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- arc monoklival
- English name (CLDR)
- face with monocle
- Emoji version
- Emoji 5.0 (2017)
- Group
- Smileys & Emotion · face glasses
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :monocle_face:
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Frequently asked questions
What does the 🧐 emoji mean?
A face with a monocle: close inspection, 'hmm, interesting', snooty scrutiny.
How do I type the 🧐 emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "classy".
When was the 🧐 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 5.0 (2017).
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.