See-no-evil monkey

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Shortcode
:see_no_evil:
Shortcode
:see_no_evil_monkey:
Unicode
U+1F648
HTML
🙈
CSS
\1F648
JavaScript
"\u{1F648}"
URL
%F0%9F%99%88

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What ๐Ÿ™ˆ means

A monkey covering its eyes: โ€œI can't look.โ€ It shows embarrassment, shyness or not wanting to see something.

Common after an awkward confession, a cringe moment or a cheeky remark: โ€œI sent that to the wrong chat ๐Ÿ™ˆ.โ€ It can also be flirty and shy. It comes from the three wise monkeys proverb, โ€œsee no evil.โ€

Facts

See-no-evil monkey ๐Ÿ™ˆ 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 :see_no_evil: or :see_no_evil_monkey:. People also look for it with words like โ€œembarrassedโ€, โ€œevilโ€, โ€œfaceโ€, or โ€œforbiddenโ€.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

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

Twemoji (X, Discord)

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

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