🐒 Monkey
🐒 Emoji meaning
Activity, joy, playfulness, a term of endearment for playful or silly people.
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🐒 Meaning
Softly, softly catchee monkey! The naughty monkey stands for activity, joy, playfulness. Term of endearment for foolish persons and children who climb a lot. May also mean “Don‘t monkey about!“ or “I'm chilling at home“. Often used in the context of animals, zoos and forests.
Examples
- You're so playful. 🐒
- You little goofball! 🐒
- Why are you grinning like that? 🐒
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Monkey face vs monkey; face vs full body, both used generically for monkeys.
Sloth vs monkey; both climbing mammals in trees, sloth is often misread as a type of monkey.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Monkey” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords added
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
Keywords added
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(2) Comments
Caroline Use it like a protective mother hen.
Anonymous I send it to say, “That's funny!“