🙈  See-No-Evil Monkey

The 🙈 emoji shows a monkey covering its eyes with its hands. It is one of three "monkey emoticons", each representing one of the three wisdoms of the three wise monkeys: "see nothing, hear nothing, speak nothing".

The "Monkey Who Won't See" emoji is part of the emoji collection released in Unicode 6.0 in 2010.

The concept of the emoji comes from the ancient Japanese philosophy of the "Three Wise Monkeys," which symbolize the virtues of "not seeing evil, not hearing evil, and not speaking evil.

This emoji can be used in a variety of contexts. Here are a few examples:

To express shame or embarrassment: "I can't believe I did that. 🙈"
To signal a desire to avoid an embarrassing or uncomfortable situation: "I can't look at that. 🙈"
To signal a desire to ignore or avoid something: "I'll just ignore the fact that I have a test tomorrow. 🙈"

Compared to the other two monkey emoji, 🙉 (monkey that doesn't want to listen) and 🙊 (monkey that doesn't want to talk), the 🙈 emoji is used to symbolize "not seeing" or avoiding a certain situation, while the others represent "not hearing" or "not speaking" respectively. Compared to other emoji that express embarrassment or shame, such as 😳 (face with red cheeks), the 🙈 emoji offers a more playful and less direct way to express these feelings.