Monkey face
Emoji 1.0 ยท Animals & Nature ยท :monkey_face:
Also known as: animal, banana, face, monkey
How it looks elsewhere
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What Monkey face Means
People reach for ๐ต when they mean animal, banana, face, monkey. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Monkey face is one of the animals & nature emoji, alongside ๐ ๐ฆ ๐ฆง ๐ถ ๐ and 25 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Monkey face was added in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ต is the single code point U+1F435, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :monkey_face:.
How To Use ๐ต
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ต๐๐ฆ and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :monkey_face: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.