🙈 Meaning: What does the monkey see nothing emoji mean?

Keypoints

• The Mizaru emoji 🙈 depicts a monkey covering its eyes, signifying “see no evil,” and conveys feelings of surprise, shyness, or embarrassment depending on the context.
• The use of this emoji can vary culturally, ranging from discretion and popular wisdom to criticism of denial or cowardice, and even for flirting.
• This emoji was proposed and accepted by the Unicode Consortium in 2007 and 2009, and has been part of the standard emoji since Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Have you heard of the Japanese "Three No Monkeys"? The famous 3 little monkeys of wisdom, meaning don't see, don't listen, or don't speak, originating in Confucius' dictum: "You can't say, look at or listen to unethical things".

Sculptures such as portraits of small monkeys are popular in Japan and are often found in Japanese shrines. They are called Mizaru 🙈, Kikazaru 🙉 and Iwazaru 🙊 and even exist as emojis.

In this guide, we tell you about the monkey sees no evil emoji or the Mizaru 🙈! Which is What does the monkey emoji mean?

Discover the different meanings and possible uses of this emoji in this article!

The different meanings of the smiley 🙈

This monkey emoji is depicted with a monkey's head, hands over eyes and mouth open. This smiley can have many meanings:

• This emoji gives an air of surprise or joy, with the whole face a priori signifying "don't look Where "don't seeby extension "don't see the harm, "Mizaru in Japanese.
• It can also reflect the shyness, ofembarrassment, vulnerable. Its appearance may vary from one messaging service to another.
• Its interpretation may differ from one culture to another. On the one hand, it can be considered as a judgment, or one advice, on the other hand, it can be inspired by a a form of folk wisdom or of common sense.
• This emoji can also designate a criticism of denial attitude, ofblindness or of cowardice, especially in someone who does not want to face reality or who is ashamed to admit it.
• This smiley with the monkey face that can't see anything can also mean that the other person wants to flirt with you.
• This emoji also means’avoidance, and can also mean that the person cannot believe what they are seeing.

How to use this 🙈 emoji?

• Do you want to encourage your interviewer to behave well, Should you tell them to close their eyes to the evil done by others? In that case, you can add the monkey emoji covering its eyes to convey the message! You will encourage them to look only at the good and avoid doing harm.
• Want toinvite someone to take responsibility ? To encourage this person to dare to denounce evil and injustice and do what is necessary? The 🙈 emoji is still a good way to express your feelings.
• Similarly, in the whatsapp messages, Facebook, among others, you can use this emoji to tell your interlocutor that you know how to be discreet.
• Want to tell someone you like them? This monkey emoji can express your love, especially when combined with romantic emojis such as the smiling face with heart-shaped eyes 😍!

Here are two example sentences with the Mizaru monkey emoji:

1. Don't worry, I act like I didn't see anything 🙈.
2. Don't mind what they do, stay good with your surroundings 🙈🙈.
3. I'm very shy, you know 🙈
4. You're never here anyway 🙈
5. I like you, but seriously 😍🙈
6. My heart already belongs to you, but you don't even realize it!

Origin of this emoji 🙈

This emoji is from a 2007 and 2009 proposal, the details of which are presented below:

Proposal number 1 of : 🙈

• Number : L2/07-257
• Last name : Working Draft Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols (Associated tables in ZIP file)
• Proposed by : Markus Scherer, Kat Momoi, Mark Davis
• Year of proposal: 2007
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
• Case : No.257, 2007 HTML: EMOJI WD / No.257, 2007 ZIP: EMOJI WD TABLE

Proposal number 2 of : 🙈

• Number : L2/09-026
• Last name : Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
• Proposed by : Kat Momoi, Markus Scherer, Mark Davis, YasuoKida, Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.), Darick Tong (Google Inc.)
• Year of proposal: 2009
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
• Case : No.026, 2009 PDF: R EMOJI PROPOSED / No.026, 2009 PDF: EMOJI PROPOSED

Proposal L2/07‑257(2007), L2/09‑026(2009) was approved by the Unicode Consortium and in 2015-06-02 it was released as Emoji version 1.0.

Characteristics of the smiley 🙈

Here are the characteristics of the monkey who sees nothing wrong 🙈 emoji:

Now you know all about the monkey who sees no evil 🙈 emoji. Now, use it properly! And by the way, to discover emoji meanings 🙉, the 🙊 emoji... Take a look at our articles for more information.

Indeed, the main lesson of the three mystical monkeys, including the one that sees nothing, is to protect ourselves by avoiding any intrusion of evil into our field of vision, in other words, by avoiding talking about negative things. 

Read also our complete article on the various interpretations and uses of the smiley play red 😊 on social networks.