Clown Face emoji 🤡: meaning and how to use it
🤡 — a colorful clown face — has become internet shorthand for foolishness. Calling someone (or yourself) a clown means they did something silly, naive or self-defeating.
:clown_face:What does the Clown Face emoji mean?
The clown emoji labels someone as foolish, embarrassing or clownish — “look at this clown.” It's often self-deprecating: “believed it would be easy, 🤡 me.”
It carries a tone of ridicule for naive or hypocritical behavior. Occasionally it's used literally (circus, parties, or the scary-clown genre), but the “fool” meaning dominates online.
How the emoji is used
- Calling out foolish behavior: “what a 🤡”
- Self-deprecation: “🤡 me for trusting that”
- Mocking hypocrisy or naivety
- Literal clowns, circus, parties
Clown Face emoji: Unicode details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Emoji | 🤡 |
| Unicode code point(s) | U+1F921 |
| Unicode name(s) | Clown Face |
| Shortcode | :clown_face: |
| HTML entity | 🤡 |
| Category | Emoji |
Because it is defined in Unicode, this emoji works across phones, laptops and the web — though the exact artwork differs by platform (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and Twemoji all draw it in their own style). The underlying meaning stays the same everywhere.
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What does 🤡 mean?
It means someone is being foolish or a “clown” — often used self-deprecatingly to admit you did something silly or naive.
How do I type the clown face emoji?
On most keyboards, open the emoji picker (Windows: Win + ., Mac: Ctrl + Cmd + Space, iPhone/Android: the 😀 key) and search its name. Or just copy it from the button at the top of this page.
What is the shortcode for 🤡?
The common shortcode is :clown_face:, used on Slack, Discord, GitHub and many other apps that turn :name: into an emoji.