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🐒 Monkey

Meaning and Description

A monkey is a small primate with long limbs and a tail that can climb trees. The emoji shows a squatting monkey with a curled tail. The monkey is one of the twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac. Therefore, the emojis can not only indicate flexibility, hyperactivity and intelligence, but also monkey or zodiac. Notably, WhatsApp's monkey emoji faces to the right, while Facebook's monkey emoji has unkempt hair.

Parameter

System Version Requirements
Android 4.3+ IOS 2.2+ Windows 8.0+
Code Points
U+1F412
Shortcode
:monkey:
Decimal Code
ALT+128018
Unicode Version
6.0 / 2010-10-11
Emoji Version
1.0 / 2015-06-09
Apple Name
Monkey