What does 🧐 Face with Monocle mean?
Peering through a monocle, this face is examining something very closely. It conveys scrutiny, curiosity, suspicion or investigation, like a detective sizing up clues. It also plays on posh, old-fashioned refinement, so it can mock snobbery or pretend to be fancy. Whenever you mean “let me take a closer look at that”, it fits.
🧐 Face with Monocle is an emoji from the Smileys & Emotion category (faces with glasses), added in Emoji 5.0 in 2017. People use it in messages about classy, fancy, rich, stuffy and wealthy.
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🧐 Face with Monocle on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Face with Monocle looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Face with Monocle emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🧐 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :face_with_monocle:.
When was the Face with Monocle emoji added?
🧐 Face with Monocle was added in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🧐 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Face with Monocle. The underlying code (U+1F9D0) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.