U+1F921 "🤡" Clown Face Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F921 "🤡" Clown Face is a pictographic representation of a classic circus clown, typically depicted with a pale white face, a large red nose, exaggerated makeup, and a wide, painted smile. It was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of the Emoji 3.0 update, and it often conveys a sense of humor, silliness, or carnival entertainment. However, in modern digital communication, the emoji has also taken on more complex and sometimes negative connotations, frequently being used to suggest that a person or situation is absurd, ridiculous, or untrustworthy, effectively calling someone a "clown" in a derogatory or mocking manner. Despite its playful origins, the clown face emoji has become a versatile symbol for both jest and criticism in online discourse.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F921
Version Added 9.0
Name Clown Face
Block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
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 0xA4 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83E 0xDD21
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F921
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83e\udd21

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other
Emoji Yes
Emoji Presentation Yes
Extended Pictographic Yes