Speak-no-evil monkey Emoji

Smileys

A cartoon monkey covering its mouth with both hands. It shows a primate with brown fur and a neutral, wide-eyed expression while physically blocking its own lips.

Usage Context

Used to signal that you are keeping a secret, reacting to something shocking that you can't believe, or humorously admitting you have accidentally let something slip. It acts as the verbal counterpart to the 🙈 and 🙉 emojis, completing the set of the three wise monkeys.

History

This character represents 'Iwazaru,' one of the three wise monkeys from the Japanese proverb 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.' It was codified into the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial push to bring classic Japanese pictorial representations into global digital communication.

Details

Glyph

🙊

Unicode

U+1F64A

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64a:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4A;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory monkey-face

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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