• first of the signs of the Asian zodiac
The rat emoji represents the full-bodied rodent—think gray fur, long pink tail, tiny paws, and survivalist energy. On Apple/iOS, it’s a left-facing, side-profile cutie with a smooth gray gradient, rounded pink ears, a beady black eye, delicate whiskers, and that unmistakable noodle tail curling behind. It looks alert and ready to scurry, equal parts streetwise and adorable. You can practically hear the tiny squeaks.
Online, it covers a lot of ground: calling someone a snitch ("you ratted me out"), dragging shady behavior, or delivering a dramatic "rats!" when plans flop. It also works for self-deprecating sewer-goblin humor, pack-rat confessions about hoarding, or lab-rat jokes when you’re beta testing a chaotic feature. New Yorkers deploy it with pride or terror—hello, Pizza Rat—while city-core memes use it to symbolize indestructible vibes and late-night subway lore. Fans of pet fancy rats drop it lovingly to stan their smart, cuddly little goblins.
Culturally, it nods to the Chinese zodiac’s Rat, linked with cleverness, quick thinking, and hustle. Pop culture brings the Ratatouille energy—channeling Remy, tiny chef hat optional—plus the “street rat” trope that people reclaim tongue-in-cheek. In DMs, it can even be flirty-chaotic: a playful "I’m a little rat, steal me some snacks" energy that somehow works on the right timeline.
A rat is a furry rodent that grows significantly larger than a mouse. Rats are typically associated with negativity, likely because they move quickly, are prolific (make lots of babies), can spread disease and tend to live in dark dirty and creepy places, such as sewers. When rats live in someone's house, it is called an infestation. People may also call other people a "rat", which means they are a crooked, a snitch and/or a vile person. Despite all this negativity, some people have rats as house pets and love them very much.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 486 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 | :rat: |
| Keywords | Rat, Rodent, Crooked, Snitch |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Animal Symbols |
Green, shmeen, it ain't easy being a rat.
| 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) | 1f400 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F400 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128000 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x80 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 90 80 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 220 200 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC00 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc00 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56320 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F400 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F400 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128000 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F400" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x90\x80" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC00" |
