Monk Emoji

Unicode has no emoji named monk: press Copy for 🧘 Person in lotus position, or take beads or a bell.

Monk Emoji

🧘Person in lotus positionU+1F9D8Ready to copy

49 items. Tap one to copy it.

Sitting, bowing and shaved heads 10

Beads, bell and temple 7

Quiet and calm 5

Monk in other languages 11

Typed monks 5

Monk combos 11

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How it works

The closest thing to a monk emoji is 🧘 Person in lotus position, which Unicode’s names list glosses as yoga, meditation. CLDR, its list of search words, files meditation under six emoji: three sitting like this and three bowing.

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What the word monk finds

No emoji name, search word or character name holds monk. Five emoji names hold the letters, all of them monkeys, which is an accident of spelling. CLDR files Buddhist under ☸️ Wheel of dharma alone, Buddhism under πŸͺ· Lotus alone and temple under Hindu temple and Synagogue. Robe, hood and monastery lead nowhere.

Beads, a shaved head and silence

By Wiktionary a monk is a male member of a monastic order, a tonsure is the bald patch a ritual shaving leaves and a cowl is a monk’s hood. Unicode has πŸ“Ώ Prayer beads, three bald people and, under silence, 😢 Face without mouth.

  • 僧 is the Han character Unihan defines as Buddhist priest, monk. ε°Ό is the nun.
  • Monk goes back to Greek monachos, single or solitary, by Wiktionary. Frater, Latin for brother, is another English word for a monk.

Questions and answers

Is there a monk emoji?

Not by that name. Unicode’s emoji list, version 18.0, has no emoji named monk, and no search word leads to one. 🧘 Person in lotus position is the nearest, and πŸ§˜πŸ“Ώ adds prayer beads.

Is there a monk emoticon?

Wikipedia’s list of emoticons has none. Typed, _(-_-)_ is a monk sitting with eyes shut and a hand on each knee, and /(-_-)\ pulls the cowl up. Both are plain ASCII.

Is there a bald monk emoji?

None is named monk, but three are named bald: πŸ§‘β€πŸ¦² Person: bald, πŸ‘¨β€πŸ¦² Man: bald and πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦² Woman: bald, each in five skin tones. CLDR files bald under those three and Old man. The combo Shaved head and beads adds πŸ“Ώ.

All 49 items

Sitting, bowing and shaved heads 10

  • Folded hands U+1F64F. Its Unicode character name is PERSON WITH FOLDED HANDS. Filed under pray and bow. Emoji 0.6.
  • Man bowing U+1F647 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. Filed under meditation and bow. Emoji 4.0.
  • Man in lotus position U+1F9D8 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. The lotus position joined to Male sign. Filed under meditation and yogi. Emoji 5.0.
  • Man: bald U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9B2. Filed under bald and man. Emoji 11.0.
  • Person bowing U+1F647. One of six emoji filed under meditation; the other three sit in lotus position. Filed under meditate and bow. Emoji 0.6.
  • Person in lotus position U+1F9D8. The nearest emoji to a monk. The names list glosses it as yoga, meditation. Filed under meditation, zen and serenity. Emoji 5.0.
  • Person: bald U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B2. One of four emoji filed under bald. By Wiktionary a tonsure is the bald patch a ritual shaving leaves. Emoji 12.1.
  • Woman bowing U+1F647 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. Filed under meditation and bow. Emoji 4.0.
  • Woman in lotus position U+1F9D8 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. The lotus position joined to Female sign. Filed under meditation and yogi. Emoji 5.0.
  • Woman: bald U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9B2. Filed under bald and woman. Emoji 11.0.
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Beads, bell and temple 7

  • Bell U+1F514. Filed under bell and church. Emoji 0.6.
  • Church U+26EA. Filed under chapel and church. Emoji 0.6.
  • Hindu temple U+1F6D5. One of two emoji filed under temple; the other is Synagogue. Emoji 12.0.
  • Lotus U+1FAB7. The only emoji filed under Buddhism. Filed under Buddhism and serenity. Emoji 14.0.
  • Prayer beads U+1F4FF. The names list puts it under the heading Religious symbol. Filed under prayer, beads and religion. Emoji 1.0.
  • Scroll U+1F4DC. Filed under scroll and paper. Emoji 0.6.
  • Wheel of dharma U+2638 U+FE0F. The only emoji CLDR files under Buddhist. Filed under Buddhist and dharma. Emoji 0.7.

Quiet and calm 5

  • Bell with slash U+1F515. Filed under quiet and silent. Emoji 1.0.
  • Face without mouth U+1F636. The only emoji CLDR files under silence. Filed under silence and quiet. Emoji 1.0.
  • Muted speaker U+1F507. Filed under quiet and silent. Emoji 1.0.
  • Relieved face U+1F60C. The one face filed under zen. Filed under zen, calm and peace. Emoji 0.6.
  • Shushing face U+1F92B. Filed under quiet and shh. Emoji 5.0.

Monk in other languages 11

  • ΞΌΞΏΞ½Ξ±Ο‡ΟŒΟ‚ Greek, where the word monk began: single, solitary, by Wiktionary
  • พระ Thai for monk, by Wiktionary
  • 僧侢 Japanese for monk, sōryo, by Wiktionary
  • ε’Œε°š Mandarin for monk, by Wiktionary
  • bhikkhu Pali for monk. In English, a male Buddhist priest or monk, by Wiktionary
  • Buddhist monastery or nunnery (εΊ΅) U+5EB5. A Han character, defined so by Unihan.
  • Buddhist nun (ε°Ό) U+5C3C. A Han character, defined so by Unihan.
  • Buddhist priest, monk (僧) U+50E7. A Han character, defined so by Unihan.
  • Meditation, contemplation (η¦…) U+7985. A Han character, defined so by Unihan. Read zen in Japanese: zazen is 坐 sitting and η¦…, by Wiktionary.
  • MΓΆnch German for monk, by Wiktionary
  • Temple, monastery (ε―Ί) U+5BFA. A Han character. Unihan defines it as court, office; temple, monastery.

Typed monks 5

  • /(-_-)\ The cowl pulled up. By Wiktionary a cowl is a monk’s hood. Plain ASCII
  • _(-_-)_ A monk emoticon: eyes shut, a hand on each knee. Plain ASCII
  • _(-_-)_ _(-_-)_ _(-_-)_ Three in a row. Plain ASCII
  • (-_-) . o O ( ) A thought bubble with nothing in it. Plain ASCII
  • (-x-) Lips sealed. Plain ASCII

Monk combos 11

  • Bow at the temple Person bowing, then hindu temple.
  • Copying the manuscript Man: bald, then black nib, then scroll.
  • Lotus on a lotus Person in lotus position, then lotus.
  • Monk mode Person in lotus position, then muted speaker.
  • Monk with beads Person in lotus position, then prayer beads.
  • Morning bell Bell, then sunrise.
  • Shaved head and beads Person: bald, then prayer beads.
  • Silent retreat Person in lotus position, then shushing face.
  • Tea and quiet Teacup without handle, then relieved face.
  • Vow of silence Face without mouth, then folded hands.
  • Wheel and beads Wheel of dharma, then prayer beads.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-12 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode has no emoji named monk: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds monk; the five emoji names with those letters in them are monkeys. Person in lotus position is U+1F9D8, Emoji 5.0, glossed yoga, meditation in the Unicode names list (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt), which also puts Prayer beads under the heading Religious symbol. CLDR files meditation under six emoji (the three in lotus position and the three bowing), zen under Relieved face and the three in lotus position, Buddhist under Wheel of dharma alone, Buddhism under Lotus alone, temple under Hindu temple and Synagogue, silence under Face without mouth alone and bald under four emoji; robe, hood, monastery, abbey, nun, friar and priest lead to no emoji. Unihan 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip) defines 僧 as Buddhist priest, monk; san of Sanskrit sangha, ε°Ό as Buddhist nun; transliteration, ε―Ί as court, office; temple, monastery, η¦… as meditation, contemplation and εΊ΅ as Buddhist monastery or nunnery. From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0): monk (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/monk) for the definition, the Greek root and the Mandarin, Japanese, Thai, Pali, Greek and German words; tonsure (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tonsure); cowl (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cowl); monastery (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/monastery); bhikkhu (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bhikkhu); frater (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frater); zazen (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zazen). That a monk lives in a monastery, usually in prayer and contemplation, is from Wikipedia, Monk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk, CC BY-SA 4.0). Wikipedia’s List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) holds no monk. The combo names are this site’s own. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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