🤡 Clown emoji: What does the clown face emoji mean?

When we see a clown, we immediately think of jokes, joy and laughter, among other things. Indeed, his daily life is dedicated to making people laugh, moving them, telling them jokes or stories to make them think, putting a smile back on their faces and, above all, making them happy.

In this article, we talk about the clown face emoji. 🤡its origin, its meaning and some examples of its use in sentences as well as its characteristics.

🤡 Emoji clown: The meaning and some examples of smiley usage

This emoji belongs to the group of smileys with the theme of party disguise and is represented as a heavily made-up clown face. Most often, he has the characteristic features of the august clown or "red clown". He is well known with red hair, a white face decorated with lipstick, a round, red nose (a fake nose) and grimy eyes.

Regarding its use, know that this emoji is most often used to create a somewhat comical effect in conversations and to invite your interlocutor to joke. However, on social networks, such as TikTok, it can also be used to ironically mock a person who behaves stupidly, irresponsibly or selfishly, that is, to put them in their place. The most hilarious use of this emoji is to caricature Donald Trump.

In addition, the clown face emoji is also used in the context of the Halloween party. In this case, it is used alluding to the film that, whose main role is played by the evil clown, which gives it a scary look.

The origin of the clown emoji

This clown face emoji belongs to the 2015 proposal, number L2/15-054. Here are the details of this proposal:

• Number : L2/15-054
• Last name : Emoji Additions – Compatibility, Animals, and More Popular Requests (revision 4) (Supersedes: L2/15-054r0, L2/15-054r1, L2/15-054r2, L2/15-054r3, L2/15-054r4a)
• Proposed by : Craig Cummings/Emoji SC
• Year of proposal: 2015
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 49
• Case : 054, 2015 PDF: EMOJI SLOT5 / No.054, 2015 PDF: R EMOJI SLOT5 / No.054, 2015 PDF: R2 EMOJI SLOT5 / No.054, 2015 PDF: R3 EMOJI SLOT5 / No.054, 2015 PDF: R4 EMOJI TRANCHE5 ORIGINAL R4 / No.054, 2015 PDF: R4 EMOJI TRANCHE5 UTC APPROVED VERS / No.054, 2015 PDF: R4 EMOJI TRANCHE5 / No.054, 2015 PDF: R5 EMOJI TRANCHE5

•    The 🤡 clown face emoji proposal was approved by the Unicode Consortium, and subsequently released as Emoji 3.0, specifically in 2016-06-03.

Here are some examples of using the clown face emoji in a sentence:

1. I'm going to tell you a story 🤡.
2. He always feels superior to the others that one 🤡, it's unbearable.

The characteristics of the emoji

Discover in this table the characteristics of the clown face emoji:

Use the clown face emoji 🤡 in your conversations or on your comments on social networks to joke or to say what you think of a person.