Animals & Nature · Emoji 0.6
🐒Monkey Emoji
Generally, the 🐒 emoji means someone is acting silly or playfully. It’s often used to express a lighthearted feeling or to describe something a little chaotic.
The 🐒 emoji represents a monkey.
- Unicode
- U+1F412
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :monkey:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🐒 Monkey emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Monkey emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the monkey as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Monkey emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :monkey:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F412.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🐒 Monkey emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Monkey emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the monkey as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Monkey emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around monkey for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🐒 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the monkey and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What 🐒 means in other countries
A cute animal on its own, but sending it about or to a specific person can be read as a racist slur.
widely documented as a dehumanizing racist insult, including in sports harassment cases
just means the animal itself, e.g. zoo trips, wildlife, or jungle talk
someone calling their own antics “monkey business” without directing it at anyone
Before you send it: Never aim it at a specific person's photo or name — keep it to literal animal talk only.
09 — Apps
What 🐒 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the monkey lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🐒 vs 🐵 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Monkey
Code: U+1F412 · added 2010
Shortcode: :monkey:
Generally, the 🐒 emoji means someone is acting silly or playfully.
Unicode name: Monkey Face
Code: U+1F435 · added 2010
Shortcode: :monkey_face:
Generally, the monkey emoji just means “monkey.”
12 — History
Where the 🐒 Monkey emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F412 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🐒 existed there as
KDDI au E4D9, SoftBank E528.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Monkey was approved as U+1F412 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐒 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ