A wide-eyed macaque head with a mischievous grin — that's the monkey face emoji. It's used for playful teasing, cheeky jokes, or calling out someone who's clearly up to no good, carrying the same impish energy as the see-no-evil monkey without the covered eyes.
What 🐵 means
: The face of a monkey, with its round face adorned by a wide, open-mouthed gleeful smile, and small button-like ears on either side.
Monkeys are well known for their mischievous nature, and the smile in the 🐵 Monkey Face emoji hints at that among other of its characteristics like silliness and excitement. A variety of interpretations of this smiling monkey is available in different styles across various platforms that support this emoji.
How and when to use it
- 🐵 emoji can be efficiently used to signal a tone of playful silliness.
- The broad smile of the 🐵 monkey emoji here can represent your own feeling of happiness, including laughter.
- If you're either embarrassed, or you want to point out the embarrassment of someone else, this cheerful monkey face 🐵 does the job.
- Having the 🐵 emoji represent yourself can also display a sign of respect towards the recipient, as you're showing that you're humbled down to a level much inferior to them.
Other Names
- 🐵 Monkey
- 🐵 Monkey Head
- 🐵 Silly
- 🐵 Silliness
- 🐵 Playful
- 🐵 Monkey Smile
- 🐵 Monkey Laugh
- 🐵 Funny Monkey
- 🐵 Smiling Monkey
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
- Codepoints
U+1F435- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:monkey_face:- Keywords
- animal, banana, face, monkey
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🐵 Monkey Face or 🧷 Safety Pin?
Runs with a crowd
🐵 keeps company in animal emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.