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🤡 Clown Emoji

:clown_face:
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Unicode
U+1F921

📖 What does clown face mean?

A clown face with white makeup, a large red nose, colorful hair, and a painted smile. Used to mock someone acting ridiculous or foolish — or directed at yourself after doing something embarrassing. A staple of internet meme culture. The clown-pointing-at-clown format is a particularly iconic usage.

Similar:🎭👻😜winking face with tongue💀skull
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Clown face was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.

🔢 Technical Information

Emoji
🤡
Shortcode
:clown_face:
Unicode Version
9.0 (2016)
Emoji Version
3.0 (2016)
Code Point
U+1F921
Category
Funny

💻 Developer Codes

Code PointU+1F921
HTML Hex🤡
HTML Dec🤡
JavaScript\u{1F921}
CSS\1F921
URL Encoded%F0%9F%A4%A1

💬 How to Use 🤡

🤡I genuinely believed them 🤡
🤡Waited three hours for a text that never came 🤡
🤡Me thinking I could do it all in one trip 🤡
🤡Spent an hour getting ready for them to cancel 🤡
🤡Stayed up until 3am for nothing 🤡

🤡 Clown vs 💀 Skull — What's the difference?

Both are used for internet humor, but they apply to different situations. 💀 Skull is the death-by-laughter emoji — 'I am deceased because this is so funny'. 🤡 Clown Face is the fool emoji — applied to someone behaving ridiculously, including yourself when you've made an embarrassing mistake. When something is so funny it kills you, reach for 💀; when someone is clowning themselves or acting absurdly, 🤡 is the more precise tool. The skull registers hilarity; the clown registers foolishness.

💀See skull emoji →

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What does the 🤡 clown emoji mean?
It means someone — often yourself — is acting ridiculous, foolish, or embarrassingly naive. The most common use is self-directed: 'I was the clown in this situation'. It's the emoji for falling for something you really should have seen coming.
Is calling someone 🤡 an insult?
Yes, it is. Sending 🤡 at someone is a pointed way of saying they're being ridiculous or acting like a fool. It's ruder than 😂 and more deliberate than 💀 — it specifically targets the person's behavior or judgment.
What is the clown-pointing-at-clown meme?
A widely shared meme format where multiple clown figures point at each other, captioned with scenarios where two or more parties are equally foolish. The 🤡 emoji is often used as a shorthand for the same idea: 'we're both the clown here'.
Why do people put 🤡 on themselves?
Self-aware internet humor. Posting 🤡 after describing your own mistake signals that you know you were the fool — it gets there before anyone else can say it. It's both an admission and a punchline.
What's the difference between 🤡 and 😂?
😂 reacts to something funny happening. 🤡 judges the person being foolish. You'd use 😂 if something made you laugh; you'd use 🤡 if someone (including you) acted clown-like.
How do I copy the 🤡 clown emoji?
Click the Copy button at the top of this page. It copies instantly to your clipboard.