Meaning
A monkey's face, often used to represent the animal, wildlife, or trips to the zoo.
Category: Animals & Nature
🐵monkey face
🐵 monkey face belongs to Animals & Nature. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:monkey_face:
Keywords
animalbananafacemonkeymonkey face
What does 🐵 monkey face mean?
The monkey face emoji depicts the head of a monkey and is often used when discussing primates, wildlife, or nature. It can also appear in conversations about trips to the zoo or jungle-themed media. Because it is an animal face rather than a full body, it is sometimes used as a cute, playful reaction, though it generally stays tied to its literal meaning.
Often used for
- Talking about monkeys or primates
- Discussing a trip to the zoo
- Sharing wildlife or nature content
- Referencing jungle-themed movies or books
Tone: The emoji is generally lighthearted and cute. However, comparing people to monkeys carries a long history of severe racist connotations, so it should be kept strictly to its literal animal meaning.
Illustrative message examples with 🐵
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- look at this little guy at the zoo 🐵
- the monkey exhibit was so cool today 🐵
- just watched that new jungle documentary 🐵🌴
- did you know monkeys eat like half their weight in fruit 🐵🍌
- my favorite animal has always been the monkey 🐵
Combos, text art & scenes with 🐵
How 🐵 monkey face looks
Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.
OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.
🐵 monkey face codes for developers
Every format below produces 🐵 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | 🐵 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1F435 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐵 | |
| HTML (hex) | 🐵 | |
| CSS | \1F435 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F435} | |
| JSON | \uD83D\uDC35 | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%90%B5 | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :monkey_face: |
🐵 in other languages
Spanishcara de monoFrenchtête de singeGermanAffengesichtItalianmuso di scimmiaPortugueserosto de macacoRussianморда обезьяныJapaneseサルの顔Korean원숭이 얼굴Chinese猴头Lithuanianbeždžionės snukutisPolishgłowa małpy
Source: Unicode CLDR