The cricket emoji is your tiny green herald of awkward silence—aka the internet’s way of saying “no one laughed” or “this chat is dead.” Drop it after a joke bombs, a stream goes quiet, or a group text ghosts you so hard you can hear actual chirping. It also works for “I’m minding my business out in nature,” late-summer vibes, and gentle ASMR energy when paired with moon or camping emojis. Expect sarcastic, dramatic, and slightly petty usage when someone posts a thirst trap and the comments are… crickets.
Culturally, crickets show up as lucky little charmers in parts of East Asia, and Disney fans think “Jiminy Cricket = conscience mode engaged.” Don’t confuse it with the sport—🏏 is the cricket game; this one is the chirpy insect. People toss it in when they’re left on read, to underline painfully quiet Zoom calls, or to nudge a reply without typing “helloooo??”. It can also be a wink to summer nights, backyard porches, and that unmistakable nighttime soundtrack.
On Apple/iOS, the cricket is a side-facing, leaf-green bug with tan-brown folded wings, extra-long antennae, and those big springy back legs like it’s mid–Parkour practice. The style is clean and glossy with soft shading, plus a subtle shadow underneath that makes it look ready to hop. If you’ve ever mixed up crickets and grasshoppers, the iOS version’s long antennae are your instant “aha” detail. Visually simple, unmistakably chirpy, and perfect for punctuating silence with a tiny bug mic drop.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 394 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 11 - 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) | 1f997 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F997 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129431 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x97 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A6 97 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 246 227 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD97 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd97 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56727 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F997 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F997 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129431 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F997" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa6\x97" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD97" |
