Animals & Nature · Emoji 0.6
🐵Monkey Face Emoji
Generally, the monkey emoji just means “monkey.” It’s a fun way to add a bit of silliness to a text.
The 🐵 emoji is a monkey face.
- Unicode
- U+1F435
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :monkey_
face: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🐵 Monkey Face emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
People also look for it as banana emoji.
02 — Platforms
Monkey Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the monkey face 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 Face emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :monkey_face:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F435.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🐵 Monkey Face emoji
No picker to hand? The monkey face can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Monkey Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the monkey face 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
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Monkey Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around monkey face 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 with 🐵, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🐵 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the monkey face and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🐵 means in other countries
Widely used for silliness, but sending it to a Black person has a documented history as racist harassment.
Used as a racist slur against Black people, including athletes and public figures.
Positive zodiac animal linked to cleverness, mischief, and quick thinking in Chinese astrology.
Just goofy or playful when there’s no racial context at all.
Before you send it: Never pair it with a comment about a Black person’s appearance or ability — the harassment pattern is well documented.
10 — Apps
What 🐵 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F435, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — Difference
🐵 vs 🙈 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Monkey Face
Code: U+1F435 · added 2010
Shortcode: :monkey_face:
Generally, the monkey emoji just means “monkey.”
Unicode name: See-no-evil Monkey
Code: U+1F648 · added 2010
Shortcode: :see_no_evil:
Generally, it means someone is feeling embarrassed, shy, or wants to hide their reaction to something.
13 — History
Where the 🐵 Monkey Face 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+1F435 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 E109.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Monkey Face was approved as U+1F435 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.
People wrote it as
:o) back when messages were plain text. Most keyboards still convert those automatically.
14 — FAQ