Unicode files the three wise monkeys with the smileys, not the animals. Monkey emoji copy and paste has all three in one tap, plus Monkey face, Monkey, two apes, eight monkey symbols, eight text monkeys and 13 combos.
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Banana finds two monkeys
CLDR, Unicode's list of search words for emoji, files both monkeys under banana, so banana finds Monkey face and Monkey along with the fruit. Ape finds Orangutan, three Han characters and our ape combo, but never the Gorilla tile: CLDR gives Gorilla two words, animal and gorilla.
The three wise monkeys in one tap
Three wise monkeys copies the trio in the order of the saying, which is also their code point order, U+1F648 to U+1F64A. Search evil to get all 12 versions: the three emoji, the combo, the saying and the monkeys' names in Japanese, and four plain ASCII lines.
Tips
Hear-no-evil monkey is the only emoji CLDR files under tmi. Speak-no-evil monkey gets oops and stealth.
Five text monkeys are plain ASCII, so they paste anywhere a keyboard character does. Search ascii.
The saying is a Japanese pun: -zaru, meaning not, sounds like saru, monkey. ηΏ is that word.
Questions and answers
What do the three monkey emojis mean?
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. They are the three wise monkeys of a Japanese maxim: Mizaru covers his eyes, Kikazaru his ears and Iwazaru his mouth. A 17th-century carving at a shrine in NikkΕ made the picture popular.
Is there a chimpanzee emoji?
No. No emoji is named chimpanzee or chimp, and CLDR files none under either word. Unicode's two apes are Gorilla, Emoji 3.0, and Orangutan, Emoji 12.0. There is no baboon emoji either, but search baboon for three baboon characters.
What does the monkey covering its eyes emoji mean?
It is See-no-evil monkey, U+1F648, the first of the three wise monkeys. Unicode names it and defines no meaning. CLDR's search words hint at its everyday use: embarrassed, hide, omg, scared and smh, besides evil and forbidden.
π¦GorillaU+1F98D. Two search words and no more: animal and gorilla. CLDR does not list ape for it. Emoji 3.0.
πHear-no-evil monkeyU+1F649. CLDR lists ears, listen and shh. It is the only emoji filed under tmi. Emoji 0.6.
πMonkeyU+1F412. A separate character from Monkey face, named plain Monkey. CLDR files it under banana as well. Emoji 0.6.
π΅Monkey faceU+1F435. Unicode names it Monkey face, and CLDR gives it four search words: animal, banana, face and monkey. Emoji 0.6.
π¦§OrangutanU+1F9A7. The only emoji CLDR files under ape. It is filed under monkey too. Emoji 12.0.
πSee-no-evil monkeyU+1F648. Filed with the smileys, not the animals, and the one wise monkey CLDR never calls an animal. It lists embarrassed, hide, omg and smh instead. Emoji 0.6.
πBananaU+1F34C. CLDR files three emoji under banana: this one and the two monkeys. It also lists potassium. Emoji 0.6.
π₯₯CoconutU+1F965. CLDR lists palm for it, and colada. Emoji 5.0.
π³Deciduous treeU+1F333. Filed under forest and habitat. Emoji 1.0.
π΄Palm treeU+1F334. Filed under tropical and beach. Unicode has nothing filed under jungle. Emoji 0.6.
π₯PeanutsU+1F95C. Filed with the vegetables. CLDR lists nut and peanut. Emoji 3.0.
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Same message, no monkey 4
π€Face with hand over mouthU+1F92D. Shares oops and secret with Speak-no-evil monkey. Emoji 5.0.
π«£Face with peeking eyeU+1FAE3. Shares hide and scared with See-no-evil monkey. Emoji 14.0.
π€«Shushing faceU+1F92B. The only other emoji filed under shh, the word it shares with Hear-no-evil monkey. Emoji 5.0.
π€Zipper-mouth faceU+1F910. Filed under secret and quiet, as Speak-no-evil monkey is. Emoji 1.0.
Monkey symbols from other systems 8
ηBaboon in Chinese and JapaneseU+72D2 CJK unified ideograph-72D2. Unihan defines it as baboon: fΓ¨i in Mandarin, hihi in Japanese. Like the three characters before it, it is indexed under radical 94, dog.
π·Hieroglyph baboonU+130F7 Egyptian hieroglyph E032. Described by Unicode as a hamadryas baboon, Papio hamadryas.
πΈHieroglyph monkeyU+130F8 Egyptian hieroglyph E033. Unicode describes it in two words: a monkey. It shows as an empty box where no font has hieroglyphs.
π»Hieroglyph seated baboonU+130FB Egyptian hieroglyph E036. Described by Unicode as a hamadryas baboon, seated, hands on knees, tail upwards.
η΄Monkey in ChineseU+7334 CJK unified ideograph-7334. Unihan defines it as monkey, ape: hΓ³u in Mandarin. It is the character Wikipedia gives for the Monkey of the Chinese zodiac.
ηΏMonkey in Japanese (saru)U+733F CJK unified ideograph-733F. Unihan defines it as ape: saru in Japanese, yuΓ‘n in Mandarin. Each of the three wise monkeys has it as the last character of his name.
η³Monkey, the zodiac branchU+7533 CJK unified ideograph-7533. Unihan lists ninth earthly branch among its meanings: shΔn in Mandarin. It is the branch tied to the year of the Monkey, the ninth animal of the 12-year cycle.
πππ΅Monkey see, monkey doMonkey, then eyes, then monkey face. One monkey, a look, and the next monkey.
ππ§Monkey wrenchMonkey, then wrench. For the plan that just had one thrown into it.
ππSaw nothing, saying nothingSee-no-evil monkey, then speak-no-evil monkey. Two of the three, for when you did hear it.
πππThree wise monkeysSee-no-evil monkey, then hear-no-evil monkey, then speak-no-evil monkey. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil: Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru, in the order of the saying.
π΄ππ΄Through the treesPalm tree, then monkey, then palm tree. One monkey between two palms.
π§§πYear of the MonkeyRed envelope, then monkey. Ninth of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac's cycle.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 16 emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, 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, in sentence case. That file puts monkey face, monkey, gorilla and orangutan under animal-mammal, and the three wise monkeys under Smileys & Emotion in a subgroup of their own, monkey-face. Those five are every emoji with monkey in its name. The 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, main branch). CLDR lists the word monkey for six emoji (the five and orangutan, not gorilla), ape for orangutan alone, banana for the two monkeys and the fruit, and tmi for hear-no-evil monkey alone. No emoji name and no CLDR search word contains chimp, baboon, primate, lemur, gibbon, macaque or mandrill. Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. The three hieroglyph descriptions are the kEH_Desc values of Unikemet.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unikemet.txt). The meanings and readings of the five Han characters are the kDefinition, kMandarin and kJapaneseKun values of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip), with radical 94 resolved through CJKRadicals.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/CJKRadicals.txt). Wikipedia's article Three wise monkeys gives the Japanese name, literally three monkeys, the names Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru with the characters used here, the saying see not, hear not, speak not, and the play on words between the negative ending -zaru and saru, monkey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys). Its article Monkey (zodiac) gives the Monkey as the ninth animal of the 12-year cycle and its earthly branch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(zodiac)). Wikipedia's article Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias records the Japanese, Korean, Russian and Thai spellings of monkey chatter, which the script copies out of the table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias). The 8 text monkeys, the 4 words and the 13 combos are this site's own choice, and the combo names are our own. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are ours. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, and the Han definitions are Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia are restated in our own words and credited in the source line.