U+1F649 "🙉" Hear-No-Evil Monkey Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🙉
U+1F649 "🙉" Hear-No-Evil Monkey is part of the Emoticons block and depicts a monkey covering its ears with both hands, its face typically showing a slightly mischievous or neutral expression. This character is derived from the ancient Japanese proverb and visual motif of the "Three Wise Monkeys," representing the principle of "hear no evil" to avoid witnessing or engaging with wrongdoing. In digital communication, it is often used to convey the idea of ignoring gossip, refusing to listen to unpleasant information, or playfully signaling that something should not be overheard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F649 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Hear-No-Evil Monkey |
| Block | Emoticons |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🙉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🙉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDE49 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F649 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\ude49 |