Speak-no-evil monkey

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Shortcode
:speak_no_evil:
Shortcode
:speak_no_evil_monkey:
Unicode
U+1F64A
HTML
🙊
CSS
\1F64A
JavaScript
"\u{1F64A}"
URL
%F0%9F%99%8A

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What ๐Ÿ™Š means

A monkey covering its mouth: โ€œoops, I said too much,โ€ or keeping a secret.

Sent after a slip or a bold comment, or to promise silence. It is the โ€œspeak no evilโ€ monkey of the three, and it often appears with gossip or a guilty laugh.

Facts

Speak-no-evil monkey ๐Ÿ™Š 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 :speak_no_evil: or :speak_no_evil_monkey:. People also look for it with words like โ€œanimalโ€, โ€œevilโ€, โ€œfaceโ€, or โ€œforbiddenโ€.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

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

Twemoji (X, Discord)

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