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three wise monkeys

Also known as see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, 🙈, 🙉, 🙊, 🙈🙉🙊

pictorial maxim, embodying the proverbial principle “see/hear/speak no evil”, depicted as three monkeys

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The three wise monkeys at the Tōshō-gū shrine in Nikkō, Japan The three wise monkeys (三猿, San'en; [saɰ̃.eɴ], lit. 'three monkeys') are a Japanese pictorial maxim, embodying the proverbial principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." The three monkeys are

Mizaru (見猿), covering his eyes and "not seeing" (見ざる, mizaru),