Clown face

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Shortcode
:clown_face:
Unicode
U+1F921
HTML
🤡
CSS
\1F921
JavaScript
"\u{1F921}"
URL
%F0%9F%A4%A1

clownface

What ๐Ÿคก means

A clown: someone acting foolish. It often calls a person a clown, or admits to being one.

Used to mock silly behavior or bad takes, and in self-deprecation after being fooled: โ€œthought they'd text back ๐Ÿคก.โ€ It also covers circuses and real clowns.

Some people find clowns scary, so it can also be used for fear or creepiness.

Facts

Clown face ๐Ÿคก is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face costume. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :clown_face:. People also look for it with words like โ€œclownโ€ or โ€œfaceโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 3.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. clown face, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. clown face, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  3. clown face, Google (Noto) design from 20262026

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. clown face, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

smileys & emotion ยท Emoji 3.0