Hear-No-Evil Monkey 🙉
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The speak-no-evil monkey emoji, depicting a monkey covering its mouth with both hands. This emoji is used to express keeping silent, secrets, or 'speak no evil.' Common usage includes 'It's a secret🙊' 'Speak no evil🙊' or 'Inside joke🙊' Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the design is based on one of the 'Three Wise Monkeys' (see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil) at Nikko Toshogu Shrine in Japan. The Three Wise Monkeys' teaching of 'speak no evil' symbolizes restraint in speech, careful communication, and keeping secrets.

On social media, it's used for situations like 'shouldn't have said that,' 'keeping a secret,' 'accidentally letting something slip,' 'spoiler prevention,' and 'private conversations.' It humorously conveys 'I'll stay quiet' in comments. Recently, it's also used for 'truths better left unsaid,' 'avoiding taboo topics,' gossip-related content, rumor-mongering, and tell-all stories. It's widely recognized as the symbol for 'secret,' 'shh,' or 'hush.'