Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 3.0
🤡Clown Face Emoji
It usually means something is funny or embarrassing. People use it to express amusement or to show they think something is a bit ridiculous.
The 🤡 emoji is a clown face.
- Unicode
- U+1F921
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :clown_
face: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🤡 Clown Face emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 2.
People also look for it as clown emoji.
02 — Platforms
Clown Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the clown 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
Clown Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :clown_face:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F921.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🤡 Clown Face emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Clown Face emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Clown Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around clown 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Around the world
What 🤡 means in other countries
Common internet shorthand for “that was a foolish move,” aimed at yourself or, pointedly, at someone else.
Tagging yourself admits a mistake; tagging someone else openly mocks them.
Reads as mockery — colleagues rarely take it as harmless teasing.
Before you send it: Fine self-deprecating among friends; sending it about a colleague’s idea will land as an insult.
10 — Apps
What 🤡 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
12 — History
Where the 🤡 Clown Face emoji came from
It arrived with the 3.0 release of the standard, which dates the clown face to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F921 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.
Clown Face was approved as U+1F921 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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