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🙈 See-no-evil monkey

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🙈 Emoji meaning

I can't look! Close your eyes, feel embarrassed, or ignore the truth.

Table of Contents

  1.  Meaning
  2.  Confused With
  3.  Emoji History
  4.  Similar Emojis
  5.  Platforms
  6.  Emoji Details
  7.  Comments

🙈 Meaning

Monkey with two hands in front of its eyes. Closes its eyes to the world so as not to see anything bad or cruel, or is embarrassed. Mizaru is one of the three wise monkeys. In a sense, ignoring bad things.

Examples

  • Oh no! 🙈
  • Did you really do that? 🙈
  • That was so embarrassing. 🙈

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Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

See-no-evil monkey
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Speak-no-evil monkey

Speak-no-evil vs see-no-evil; both show monkeys covering parts of the face, series position is easy to mix up.

Same Emotion

See-no-evil monkey
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Shushing face

Shushing face vs see-no-evil monkey; both about not seeing/hearing/saying something, secrecy vibes.

See-no-evil monkey
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Loudly crying face

See-no-evil vs loudly crying face; both used for ‘I can’t look’ or ‘this is too much’ reactions.

See-no-evil monkey
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Hear-no-evil monkey

See-no-evil vs hear-no-evil; both part of the three wise monkeys, often confused in order.

See-no-evil monkey
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Monkey face

Monkey face vs see-no-evil; both monkey heads, one neutral, one with hands over eyes.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “See-no-evil 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 changed

Keywords added

+ embarrassed + forgot + gesture + hide + no + omg + prohibited + scared + secret + smh + watch

Keywords removed

- see - see-no-evil monkey

In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- gesture - no - not - prohibited

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ see-no-evil monkey

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there were 2 changes.

Emoji title renamed

Emoji title before

see-no-evil

Emoji title after

see-no-evil monkey

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ evil + face + forbidden + gesture + monkey + no + not + prohibited + see

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- see

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Comments

(5) Comments

  • My nerves are shaking!

  • Use it when feeling shy.

  • I don't think I'm the only one who uses this emoji when we feel ashamed. Am I right?

  • Often used to express shyness.

  • I use it when I feel happy and surprised.