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Clown Face Emoji 🤡

Red nose, white face paint, and a wide painted grin: that's the clown face emoji's whole look, cheerful on the surface and a little unsettling underneath. Most people aren't mocking an actual clown with it — they're calling out themselves, or someone else, for a foolish, no-take-backs decision.

What 🤡 means

There's more to the makeup than the red nose: most sets add red tufts either side of the head, tiny raised eyebrows over a big pair of eyes, and a full set of teeth inside that painted mouth.

The 🤡 Clown Face emoji signifies humor, hilarity, jokes, and being funny. It also evokes a sense of being creepy, scary, frightening, and stalkerish on the other hand. Remember IT? This is the Pennywise of the emoji world. Just kidding. Don't believe them, Billy.

How and when to use it

Use this emoji if you're trying to scare someone and you know for a fact that they're terrified of clowns (it works well on those who aren't scared of clowns too).
This emoji can also be used to show that something or someone, or you are being creepy.
If you have this sudden urge to be constantly creepy to someone, send this emoji.
You can use this emoji while talking about funny, mindless stuff too.
Send this emoji while trying to describe something silly and goofy.

Other Names

🤡 Funny
🤡 Comical
🤡 Scary
🤡 Scary Clown
🤡 Evil
🤡 Evil Clown
🤡 Pennywise
🤡 Silly
🤡 Foolish
🤡 Humour
🤡 Joker

🤡 in real conversations

What does 🤡 mean from a girl?

Self-roast, mostly: 'I really believed he'd change 🤡' means she played herself and knows it. Aimed at someone else, it's calling their behavior a circus.

What does 🤡 mean from a guy?

The face of getting fooled — by a team, a crypto chart, his own optimism. Occasionally literal clowning on a friend's take.

What does 🤡 mean in texting?

Foolishness, worn or assigned. Putting on the metaphorical clown makeup is the internet's ritual for admitting a bad decision in real time.

The lowdown

Category: Smileys & Emotion › face-costume
Codepoints: U+1F921
Emoji version: Emoji 3.0
Shortcodes: :clown_face::clown: Discord
Keywords: clown, face

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.