๐Ÿ™ŠMonkey holding hands over mouth emoji
๐Ÿ™Š

๐Ÿ™Š Emoji meaning

My lips are sealed! Don't say anything, keep the secret.

๐Ÿ™Š Meaning

Monkey is holding both hands over its mouth. Keeps a secret, will not talk about something, wants to speak no evil or what it just said slipped out of its mouth. Iwazaru is part of the three wise monkeys.

Examples

  • Iโ€™m not saying anything. ๐Ÿ™Š
  • Can you keep this between us? ๐Ÿ™Š
  • Oops, that was supposed to be a secret! ๐Ÿ™Š

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Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

Speak-no-evil monkey
โ†”

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

Same Emotion

Speak-no-evil monkey
โ†”

Hear-no-evil vs speak-no-evil; identical monkey heads with hands, only hand position changes.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji โ€œSpeak-no-evil monkeyโ€ 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

+ animal + gesture + no + not + oops + prohibited + quiet + secret + stealth

Keywords removed

- speak-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

+ speak-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

speak-no-evil

Emoji title after

speak-no-evil monkey

Keywords changed

Keywords added

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

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