🙉hear-no-evil monkey

What does 🙉 hear-no-evil monkey mean?

The hear-no-evil monkey emoji depicts a monkey covering its ears, originating from the proverbial three wise monkeys. It is often used to show that someone is deliberately ignoring or avoiding information, especially gossip or spoilers. Depending on context, it can also signal that a conversation has crossed into TMI (too much information) territory.

Often used for

• 🙉Pretending not to hear gossip or rumors
• 🙉Avoiding spoilers for a movie or show
• 🙉Reacting to TMI (too much information)
• 🙉Signaling "shh" or asking someone to stop talking
• 🙉Expressing willful ignorance of a situation

🙉 in real messages

• la la la i can't hear you 🙉
• no spoilers please i haven't started the new season yet 🙉
• okay that was way too much info about your date 🙉
• i'm just gonna pretend i didn't hear that 🙉
• shh don't tell me anything else 🙉

Combos, text art & scenes with 🙉

How 🙉 hear-no-evil monkey looks

Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.

🙉

OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.

🙉 hear-no-evil monkey codes for developers

Every format below produces 🙉 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.

🙉 in other languages

Source: Unicode CLDR