Hear-no-evil monkey

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Shortcode
:hear_no_evil:
Shortcode
:hear_no_evil_monkey:
Unicode
U+1F649
HTML
🙉
CSS
\1F649
JavaScript
"\u{1F649}"
URL
%F0%9F%99%89

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What ๐Ÿ™‰ means

A monkey covering its ears: not wanting to hear something.

Used to block out spoilers, bad news, gossip or an unwanted opinion: โ€œdon't tell me the ending ๐Ÿ™‰.โ€ It completes the three wise monkeys with ๐Ÿ™ˆ and ๐Ÿ™Š, representing โ€œhear no evil.โ€

Facts

Hear-no-evil monkey ๐Ÿ™‰ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under monkey face. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :hear_no_evil: or :hear_no_evil_monkey:. People also look for it with words like โ€œanimalโ€, โ€œearsโ€, โ€œevilโ€, or โ€œfaceโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. hear-no-evil monkey, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. hear-no-evil monkey, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. hear-no-evil monkey, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. hear-no-evil monkey, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. hear-no-evil monkey, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018

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

smileys & emotion ยท Unicode 6.0