Monkey emoji 🐒
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F412
What 🐒 means
Monkey 🐒 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, banana.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or banana on your phone to find 🐒.
On the emoji keyboard, 🐒 sits with the mammals (66 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🦍 🦧 🐶 🐕.
Will 🐒 show on my friend's phone?
🐒 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 🐒
To find 🐒 quickly, type monkey into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type monkey.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type monkey in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type monkey.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🐒 as one code point, U+1F412: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F412 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐒 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐒 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F412"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F412} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%92 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 92 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🐒 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the monkey emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐒 "monkey" and links it with animal, banana. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the monkey emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the monkey emoji?
To find 🐒 quickly, type monkey into the emoji search.