What is the meaning of the smiley 🤡?

When we see a clown, we immediately think of jokes, joy, laughter, among others. Indeed, his daily life is a priori dedicated to making people laugh, to moving them, to telling them jokes or stories to make them think, to make them smile and above all to make them happy. In this article, we are talking about the clown face emoji. 🤡, its origin, its meaning and some examples of its use in sentences as well as its characteristics.

Clown emoji picture illustration
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The origin of the 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 version 3.0, specifically in 2016-06-03.

The meaning and some examples of the use of the smiley 🤡

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.

Picture illustration of the clown emoji's different appearances
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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:

Version 3.0 (2016-06-03)
Usual name clown face
Category Smilies and Emotions
Sub-category Face-suit
Apple designation clown face
code point U+1F921 Copy
Decimal ALT+129313
unicode 9.0 (2016-06-03)
Key words Face-clown-clown face
Other names · Jester Emoji;

· Emoji acrobat;

· clown emoji;

· Prank 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.

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