Monkey Face 🐵
🐵 (U+1F435) is a standard Unicode character that you can copy and paste anywhere text is accepted. This page provides a concise reference with safe tips, internal links, and practical guidance so you can use it reliably across apps and platforms.
What it is and where it’s used: Monkey Face is part of the Symbols family (block: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs). If you need styled or decorative alternatives, try our Fancy Text tool to generate compatible text that works in most modern interfaces.
History & usage: MONKEY FACE depicts a monkey face. Use this emoji to express playfulness, curiosity, or light mischief in messages and interfaces. It can signal animal topics, nature content, or a cheeky tone in captions and chats. You can use it in UI text to soften a warning or add a friendly vibe in onboarding, help tips, or social updates. Because appearance varies across platforms, colors and details may look different in each app or font. If color emoji support is missing, a monochrome or text style may appear. For accessibility, ensure surrounding text conveys the intended meaning so readers without color context understand the message.
Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+1F435
in many development tools or editors. Some operating systems provide a character viewer or input palette that lets you search by name or code and insert the glyph into documents.
Display and fallback: if you see an empty box (tofu) or a placeholder rectangle, the active font might not include this codepoint. Switching to a font with broader Unicode coverage or using a fallback font usually fixes the issue. On the web, ensure the page’s font stack includes a general‑purpose fallback.
Related references: browse the Categories for similar characters. When choosing a symbol, prefer the official codepoint for semantic clarity and better compatibility with search, copy, and accessibility tooling.
See our category page for related symbols.
Technical details
- Codepoint:
U+1F435
- General Category:
So
- Age:
6.0
- Bidi Class:
ON
- Block:
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
- Script:
Common
- UTF-8:
F0 9F 90 B5
- UTF-16:
D83D DC35
- UTF-32:
0001F435
- HTML dec:
🐵
- HTML hex:
🐵
- JS escape:
\u{1F435}
- Python \N{}:
\N{MONKEY FACE}
- Python \U:
\U0001F435
- URL-encoded:
%F0%9F%90%B5
- CSS escape:
\1F435
How to type / insert
Fast copy: click the Copy button near the top of this page.
By codepoint: in many editors and IDEs, you can insert via the Unicode code U+1F435
or a built‑in character picker.
HTML: use the numeric entity 🐵
(hex) or 🐵
(decimal) when an HTML entity is needed.
Compatibility & troubleshooting
Font support: if the symbol does not render, the current font likely lacks this codepoint. Choose a font with broad Unicode coverage or allow a fallback font.
Web pages: ensure your CSS font stack includes a general fallback; avoid relying on images for common symbols to preserve accessibility and copyability.