🤡 Clown Face

Emoji Meaning

A circus or birthday clown displayed with white face makeup, a red nose, exaggerated eyes and smile, and two tufts of hair (red or blue). Commonly used as comment on TikTok or other social media platforms to indicate that a person is foolish, idiotic and/or selfish.

May instead describe something that is creepy or scary. Sometimes used as an unflattering alias for Donald Trump.

Clown Face was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.