Monkey face

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Shortcode: :monkey_face:
Unicode: U+1F435
HTML: 🐵
CSS: \1F435
JavaScript: "\u{1F435}"
URL: %F0%9F%90%B5

What 🐵 means

A cartoon monkey's face. It means playful, cheeky, or silly behavior, plus monkeys themselves.

Goofing around, monkey business, and silly jokes are its main job, along with zoo trips and animal posts. It also stands for a playful friend with endless energy.

It is easy to confuse with 🙈, 🙉, and 🙊, the three wise monkeys, which cover the eyes, ears, or mouth and carry their own meanings.

Facts

Monkey face 🐵 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. 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 :monkey_face:. People also look for it with words like “animal”, “banana”, “face”, or “monkey”.