The monkey-mouth emoji is one of the three Japanese wisdom monkeys, along with the who hides his ears and the other hides his eyes. They are associated with a philosophical maxim of Confucian origin, which found popularity in Japan during the 16th century. These three little monkeys express wisdom, notably not to speak evil, hear evil or see evil.
In this guide, we expand on information including the origin, meanings and uses, as well as features of the monkey emoji that says nothing bad, also known as the Iwazaru monkey emoji 🙊.
🙊: The meanings and uses of monkey mean nothing
After the monkey emoji that hears nothing wrong and the emoji that sees nothing wrong, there's the emoji that says nothing wrong to form the Confucian triptych of Japanese monkeys called "Three No Monkeys" (monkeys of wisdom). Also known as "Iwazaru", which literally means "mute", a priori means "says nothing wrong", be it lies, prejudice, false information or gossip, etc. It's seen as a little monkey face hiding its mouth with both hands, looking a little embarrassed or self-conscious in WhatsApp, Messenger, and most messenger messages.
- Firstly, it is used to express the discretion (we know how to keep a secret, we don't talk about things that don't concern us). On the other hand, it can also translate embarrassment felt after committing an indiscretion (having spoken too much, having spoken without thinking).
- In some contexts, it is considered as racist, especially when used to defame, insult or abuse black people, especially black women.
Here are two examples of the use of the Iwazaru emoji:
- I prefer not to say anything.
- I didn't mean that, oops 🙊.
Origin of the smiley monkey say nothing 🙊
This emoji is from a 2007 and 2009 proposal, the details of which are presented below:
Proposal number one
- 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 two
- 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.
The characteristics of this emoji
These are the characteristics of the monkey emoji saying nothing 🙊:
| Version | 1.0 (2015-06-09) |
| Usual name | monkey say nothing |
| Category | Smilies and Emotions |
| Sub-category | Face-Monkey |
| Apple designation | monkey who doesn't say anything bad |
| code point | U+1F64A Copy |
| Decimal | ALT+128586 |
| unicode | 6.0 (2010-10-11) |
| Key words | Monkey-dumb-monkey say nothing |
| Other name |
· Mute monkey emoji; Iwazaru monkey emoji. |
Use the monkey emoji don't say anything🙊 in your messages or comments on social networks to say you know how to hold your tongue, or to react when you feel embarrassed after committing an indiscretion!
