See-No-Evil Monkey Emoji
A monkey covering its eyes, for embarrassment and not wanting to look.
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Meaning & usage
What does the See-No-Evil Monkey emoji mean?
A monkey covering its eyes, for embarrassment and not wanting to look.
Embarrassed and self-aware. It softens an awkward admission, which is why it turns up after someone tells a story at their own expense.
How to use π naturally
Cringing at your own message, secondhand embarrassment and surprises.
Animal emoji can be literal, affectionate or symbolic. People often use them for pets and wildlife, but also for personality traits, visual themes and private nicknames.
From standard to slang
The history of π
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicodeβs Emoji Versions data, See-No-Evil Monkey was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
One of the three wise monkeys carved at the TΕshΕ-gΕ« shrine in NikkΕ, Japan, where they represent seeing, hearing and speaking no evil. The trio came into the carrier set together, and π is by far the most used of them.
- Today
How its use evolved
Cringing at your own message, secondhand embarrassment and surprises.
Dates follow Unicodeβs official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of π in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
I sent it to the wrong chat π
Do not look at my search history π
Bought another plant π
When to use it
Using π clearly
Cringing at your own message, secondhand embarrassment and surprises. It lands as see no evil emoji or monkey covering eyes emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding β so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the see-no-evil monkey emoji
What does π mean in a text message?
A monkey covering its eyes, for embarrassment and not wanting to look. Embarrassed and self-aware. It softens an awkward admission, which is why it turns up after someone tells a story at their own expense.
Is π always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are see no evil emoji, monkey covering eyes emoji, π meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does π look different on another device?
U+1F648 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the see-no-evil monkey emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. π is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the see-no-evil monkey emoji introduced?
Unicodeβs Emoji Versions data first records π as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
π in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F648 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🙈 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🙈 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F648 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F648} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%99%88 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F648
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- see no evil emojimonkey covering eyes emojiπ meaning
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