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🤡Clown Face Emoji

🤡 clown face — U+1F921, added in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Unicode groups it with the other 8 costumed & creatures emojis under Smileys & Emotion.

What 🤡 clown face means

Masks, monsters and things that are not faces at all. Used for self-deprecation (🤡 for admitting you were the fool), Halloween, and gaming. 👾 is formally named alien monster but is drawn on most platforms as an arcade sprite, and 💩 reached Unicode from the Japanese carrier sets that seeded the original emoji list.

Unicode tags this one clown, face and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Costumed & Creatures.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F921`
HTML hex	`🤡`
HTML decimal	`🤡`
CSS	`\1F921`
JavaScript	`\u{1F921}`
Python	`\U0001F921`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDD21`
Rust	`\u{1f921}`
Swift	`\u{1F921}`
PHP	`\u{1F921}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A4%A1`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A4 A1`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DD21`
Base64	`8J+koQ==`
Decimal	`129313`
Introduced	Emoji 3.0 (2016)

Keywords

clown
face

Appears in these collections

How to type 🤡

Windows — press Win + . and search “clown face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “clown”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f921 and Enter.
HTML — paste 🤡.

How 🤡 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🤡Apple
🤡Segoe
🤡Noto
🤡System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🤡 clown face emoji mean?+

🤡 is the clown face emoji, tagged clown, face. Masks, monsters and things that are not faces at all. Used for self-deprecation (🤡 for admitting you were the fool), Halloween, and gaming. 👾 is formally named alien monster but is drawn on most platforms as an arcade sprite, and 💩 reached Unicode from the Japanese carrier sets that seeded the original emoji list.

What is the Unicode code for 🤡?+

clown face is U+1F921. In HTML that is 🤡, in CSS \1F921, and in JavaScript \u{1F921}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🤡 emoji added?+

clown face got its emoji presentation in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🤡 clown face.