🙊 Speak-No-Evil Monkey
Also known as: Iwazaru, Monkey Covering Mouth, No Speaking
Description
The speak no evil monkey, called Iwazaru (Japanese for “say not”), one of the Three Wise Monkeys. Depicted as the brown 🐵 Monkey Face with hands covering its mouth. The Three Wise Monkeys represent the proverb see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, frequently interpreted as a call for discretion or willful ignorance. Often used as a playful way to convey I can’t believe what I just said!, express a mischievous Oops!, or communicate a secret-keeping I won’t say a word. May be used to similar effect as 🤭 Face With Hand Over Mouth or 🤐 Zipper Mouth. See also 🙈 See-No-Evil Monkey and 🙉 Hear-No-Evil Monkey. 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 | :speak_no_evil_monkey: | |
| GitHub | :speak_no_evil: | |
| Slack | :speak_no_evil: | |
| Discord | :speak_no_evil: |
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One of the three wise monkeys, known as Iwazaru. This Speak-No-Evil monkey has hands covering his mouth, as part of the proverb “see no evil http://emojipedia.org/speak-no-evil-monkey/
- Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
- Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
- Not conforming to, permitted by, or recognised by law or rules.
- Contrary to or forbidden by law.
- Not good; unfavorable; negative.
- Having undesirable or negative qualities
- Morally corrupt.
- Morally bad or wrong
- Excluded from use or mention
- Expressed without speech- Emily Dickinson- Thomas Wolfe
- Expressed without speech; wordless, unspoken
- Without sound
- Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- Express in speech
- To express something by a gesture or gestures.
- To say or express through gestures.
- Show, express or direct through movement
- To show, express or direct through movements.
- To express through gestures.
- To tell not to do something.
- Command against
- To forbid, disallow, or proscribe; to make illegal or illicit.
- Not say anything.
- Logical operation (not)
- State of being dishonored.
- Shame is regarded variously as an affect, emotion, cognition, state, or condition of embarrassment, dishonor, disgrace, inadequacy, humiliation, or chagrin.
- Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.
- The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
- Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of impropriety, dishonor or other wrong in the opinion of the person experiencing the feeling. It is caused by awareness of exposure of circumstances of unworthiness or of improper or indecent conduct.
- Shame is a negative, painful, social emotion that". results from comparison of the self's action with the self's standards.".
- A state of dishonor
- The consciousness or awareness of dishonor, disgrace, or condemnation.
- Variously, an affect, emotion, cognition, state, or condition
- An operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true.
- In various logical and algebraic structures
- In logic, negation, also called logical complement, is an operation that takes a proposition p to another proposition "not p", written ¬ p, which is interpreted intuitively as being true when p is false and false when p is true.