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 talk about the monkey sees no evil emoji or the Mizaru🙈, including its meanings and the different possible uses of this emoji.
The different meanings of the smiley 🙈
This monkey emoji features a monkey head with hands over eyes and mouth open.
- 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. 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 critical attitude of denial, ofblindness or of cowardice, especially in someone who doesn't want to face reality.
How to use this 🙈 emoji?
- Do you want to encourage your interviewer to behave wellAre you trying to tell your child to turn a blind eye to harm done by others? If so, you can add the monkey emoji to convey the message! You'll encourage him 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 to do what's necessary? The 🙈 emoji is another good idea for expressing 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.
Here are two example sentences with the Mizaru monkey emoji:
- Don't worry, I act like I didn't see anything 🙈.
- Don't mind what they do, stay good with your surroundings 🙈🙈.
- I'm very shy, you know 🙈
- You're never here anyway 🙈
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:
| Version | 1.0 (2015-06-09) |
| Usual name | Monkey see nothing |
| Category | Smilies and Emotions |
| Sub-category | face-monkey |
| Apple designation | Monkey that sees nothing wrong |
| code point | U+1F648Copy |
| Decimal | ALT+128584 |
| unicode | 6.0 (2010-10-11) |
| Key words | Monkey-blind-monkey see nothing |
| Other names |
· Blind Monkey Emoji; Mizaru monkey emoji; Blind macaque 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.
