Emoji Meaning
The see no evil monkey, called Mizaru (Japanese for “see not”), one of the Three Wise Monkeys. Depicted as the brown 🐵 Monkey Face with hands covering its eyes.
The Three Wise Monkeys represent the proverb see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, frequently interpreted as a call for discretion or willful ignorance.
Often used as a playful way to convey a laughing, disbelieving, cringing I can’t believe what I’m seeing! or I can’t bear to look!
See also 🙉 Hear-No-Evil Monkey and 🙊 Speak-No-Evil Monkey.
This emoji is considered racist in some contexts, especially when used to disparage, insult, and abuse people with dark skin, especially Black people.
See-No-Evil Monkey was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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Also Known As
- 🙈 Mizaru
- 🙈 Monkey Covering Eyes
Apple Name
🙈 See-No-Evil Monkey