The thought balloon is the classic comic-book cloud that says, “I’m thinking this, not saying it.” It’s perfect for soft-launching a spicy opinion, sharing shower-thoughts, or dropping quiet shade that lives rent-free in your head. People use it for subtext, irony, and those “draft tweet energy” moments—often paired with an ellipsis to imply a lingering idea. It also shows up in meme culture for intrusive thoughts, internal screaming, or that delulu daydream when you’re calculating 47 scenarios from one text.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a puffy white cloud with scalloped edges, a clean black outline, and a tiny trail of three smaller bubbles drifting to the lower-left—no text inside, just pure brain-cloud vibes. It’s visually distinct from the speech balloon’s pointy tail; this one is fluffy and silent, like a thought bubble from Sunday comics. Use it flirtatiously to hint “I could say something, but I won’t,” or dramatically to keep the tea in your head where it’s safe. Bonus: it pairs beautifully with the thinking face, zipper-mouth face, or the eyes emoji for peak “I have thoughts, Your Honor.”
A comic book thought cloud. A cloud that can be drawn over a comic book character to symbolize thinking or internal dialogue. This emoji can also be used to communicate day dreaming or wondering. Humm…
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 643 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :thought_balloon: |
| Keywords | Thought, Balloon, Comic, Think, Day Dream, Wonder |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Comic Style Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 💭 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 💭 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 💭 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 💭 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f4ad |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F4AD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128173 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0xAD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 92 AD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 222 255 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDCAD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddcad |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56493 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F4AD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F4AD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128173 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F4AD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x92\xad" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDCAD" |
