🐒 Monkey
Also known as: Cheeky Monkey
Description
A monkey, a small primate with long limbs and tail for climbing trees. Generally depicted as a cartoon-styled, brown monkey with a cheeky facial expression, shown in full profile facing left, sitting on its hind legs with a long, curled tail and round ears. As with 🐵 Monkey Face, often used with a playful tone or for metaphorical senses of monkey. One of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. WhatsApp’s monkey is facing right, Facebook’s has shaggy hair. This emoji is considered racist in some contexts, particularly when used to disparage, insult, and abuse people with dark skin, especially Black people.
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| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :monkey: | |
| GitHub | :monkey: | |
| Slack | :monkey: | |
| Discord | :monkey: |
Additional Information
A cheeky looking monkey, sitting down with tail curled up. Monkey was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015 http://emojipedia.org/monkey/
- A primate from the group "New World monkeys" or "Old World monkeys" (Simiiformes, excluding the superfamily Hominoidea or apes) that lives mainly in rainforests and is distinguished from an Ape by its smaller size and its tail.
- Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- A monkey is a primate of the Haplorrhini suborder and simian infraorder, either an Old World monkey or a New World monkey, but excluding apes and humans.
- A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.
- Commonly a travelling company of performers
- A travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals
- A circus is a company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.
- A circus is a company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.
- A travelling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.