Speak-No-Evil Monkey 🙊
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The hear-no-evil monkey emoji, depicting a monkey covering its ears with both hands. This emoji is used to express not listening, ignoring, or 'hear no evil.' Common usage includes 'I can't hear it🙉' 'Hear no evil🙉' or 'Ignoring🙉' 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 'hear no evil' symbolizes blocking out bad information, avoiding negative rumors, and pretending not to know.

On social media, it's used for situations like 'don't want to hear it,' 'blocking negative talk,' 'not listening to gossip,' 'avoiding the news,' and 'stress-free information filtering.' It humorously conveys 'I'm not listening' in reactions. Recently, it's also used in posts about mental health maintenance, information fatigue, and digital detox, symbolizing self-protection from modern society's stress. The three monkeys are often used together as a set.