Monkey face Emoji

Animals

A cartoonish, tan-colored monkey face looking directly forward with a wide, neutral expression. It features rounded ears and a lighter-colored muzzle area that defines its recognizable primate features.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent playfulness, silliness, or a cheeky attitude. It is frequently sent when someone is joking around or acting like a clown, and it pairs perfectly with 🐵’s friends like 🙈, 🙉, and 🙊 to depict the classic 'see no evil' trio.

History

This emoji has been a staple of digital communication since the early days of Japanese mobile carrier sets. It was officially integrated into the Unicode standard in 2010 to bring expressive animal characters to global smartphone keyboards, reflecting the long-standing use of monkey imagery in internet memes and chat culture.

Details

Glyph

🐵

Unicode

U+1F435

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f435:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC35;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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