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🙉Hear-No-Evil Monkey Emoji
The hear-no-evil monkey emoji 🙉 carries the codepoint U+1F649 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Smileys & Emotion → Monkey Faces.
What 🙉 hear-no-evil monkey means
The three wise monkeys from the Tosho-gu shrine in Nikko, Japan - see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Online they have lost the proverb and become reaction faces: 🙈 for secondhand embarrassment or hiding from your own message, 🙊 for saying the thing you were not supposed to say, 🙉 for willful ignorance.
Unicode tags this one animal, ears and evil and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Monkey Faces.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F649 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🙉 | |
| HTML decimal | 🙉 | |
| CSS | \1F649 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F649} | |
| Python | \U0001F649 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDE49 | |
| Rust | \u{1f649} | |
| Swift | \u{1F649} | |
| PHP | \u{1F649} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%99%89 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 99 89 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DE49 | |
| Base64 | 8J+ZiQ== | |
| Decimal | 128585 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🙉
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “hear-no-evil monkey”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “animal”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f649and 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 🙉 hear-no-evil monkey emoji mean?+
🙉 is the hear-no-evil monkey emoji, tagged animal, ears and evil. The three wise monkeys from the Tosho-gu shrine in Nikko, Japan - see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Online they have lost the proverb and become reaction faces: 🙈 for secondhand embarrassment or hiding from your own message, 🙊 for saying the thing you were not supposed to say, 🙉 for willful ignorance.
What is the Unicode code for 🙉?+
hear-no-evil monkey is U+1F649. In HTML that is 🙉, in CSS \1F649, and in JavaScript \u{1F649}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🙉 emoji added?+
hear-no-evil monkey got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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.
Related emojis
More emojis from Monkey Faces in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🙉 hear-no-evil monkey.