Mouse Face is the squeaky-cute rodent head that pops up whenever you want to look small, shy, or adorably guilty. On Apple/iOS, it’s a front-facing, light-gray mouse with big round ears shaded pink inside, glossy beady eyes, a tiny dark nose, three whiskers per cheek, and two little buck teeth peeking out. The soft gradient shading and centered pose give it that plush-toy vibe—like it just paused mid-scamper and said “squeak?” You can practically hear the cartoon footfalls.
People drop it for “quiet as a mouse” energy, to apologize in a tiny voice, or to play the “I’m just a lil guy” meme while dodging blame. Paired with 🧀, it signals snack raids, midnight fridge adventures, or a Ratatouille-level craving; with 👀 it says “I’m lurking, don’t mind me.” It can be flirty-cute (soft squeak), ironic (“so innocent, totally not the culprit”), or dramatic when you’ve been caught sending a risky text. Expect it in fandom jokes about Mickey, Jerry, or Remy, and in chats where someone’s trying to seem harmless while being 100% chaos. Also, friendly PSA: this is a real rodent face, not the computer mouse—wrong coworker thread has learned that the hard way.
Definition
Not to be confused with a Green Mouse. This guy is a furry little rodent.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
124 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:mouse:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Gray Mouse
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Faces
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Faces
Names & Annotations
MOUSE FACE
Symbol Information
U+1F42D proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-1C2
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[ネズミ]
KDDI
#347 ねずみ 「nezumi」 U+E5C2 SJIS-F7F2 JIS-7874
Softbank
#107 #old83 ねずみ 「nezumi」 U+E053 SJIS-F994
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e053
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E053
Decimal Code Point(s)
57427
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x81 0x93
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 81 93
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 201 223
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE053
UTF-16 Hex
e053
UTF-16 Dec
57427
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E053
UTF-32 Hex
E053
UTF-32 Dec
57427
Python Src
u"\uE053"
PHP Src
"\xee\x81\x93"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE053"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🐭
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🐭
Decimal HTML Entity
🐭
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🐭
Hex Code Point(s)
1f42d
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F42D
Decimal Code Point(s)
128045
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xAD
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 90 AD
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 220 255
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC2D
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc2d
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56365
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F42D
UTF-32 Hex
01F42D
UTF-32 Dec
128045
Python Src
u"\U0001F42D"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x90\xad"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC2D"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
