Thought balloon
Emoji 1.0 ยท Smileys & Emotion ยท :thought_balloon:
Also known as: balloon, bubble, cartoon, cloud, comic, daydream, decisions, dream, idea, invent, invention, realize, think, thoughts, wonder, thinking
How it looks elsewhere
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Thought balloon Means
People reach for ๐ญ when they mean balloon, bubble, cartoon, cloud, comic and similar ideas. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Thought balloon is one of the smileys & emotion emoji, alongside ๐ ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ซฏ ๐ฅ and 9 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Thought balloon was added in 2015 as part of Emoji 1.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ญ is the single code point U+1F4AD, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :thought_balloon:.
How To Use ๐ญ
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ญ๐๐ฏ and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :thought_balloon: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.