Monkey

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Shortcode: :monkey:
Unicode: U+1F412
HTML: 🐒
CSS: \1F412
JavaScript: "\u{1F412}"
URL: %F0%9F%90%92

What 🐒 means

A full-body monkey. It means monkeys and monkey business: mischief, climbing around, and chaos.

Zoo visits, travel photos with wild monkeys, and jokes about acting wild all use it, often with 🍌. It is also the monkey of the Chinese zodiac in Lunar New Year greetings.

Monkey images have a long history as a racist insult against Black people, so sending 🐒 or 🐵 about a person can read as abuse.

Facts

Monkey 🐒 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:. People also look for it with words like “animal” or “banana”.