• first of the signs of the Asian zodiac, used in Persia
Online, 🐁 has whisper-level vibes: timid, shy, pure “I’m just a little guy” energy—the emoji version of tiptoeing to snag snacks at 2 a.m. People drop it for lurker mode, a soft, squeaky apology, or to toss ironic shade like, “ohhh now you’re quiet 🐁.” In flirty or playful chats, adding a little “squeak” turns big feelings into small-bean kawaii.
It pairs effortlessly with cheese jokes, Jerry-from-Tom-and-Jerry callbacks, Mickey mentions, and the cozy “mouse girl autumn” aesthetic. You’ll also see it subbed in for Rat during Lunar New Year posts—close culturally, not biologically—because the internet squeaks where it wants. Bonus chaos: folks sometimes use 🐁 when they really mean the computer mouse 🖱️, gamers especially.
Visually, this is the full critter, not the cutesy front-facing head. On Apple/iOS it shows a small gray mouse in left-facing profile with a pointed snout, tiny black eye, pink inner ear, and a long, thin pink tail curling behind—a textbook house mouse mid-stroll. A rounded body, short legs, and neat whiskers sell the soft, skittish feel. It reads instantly as the full-body rodent, not the big-eyed Mouse Face cousin.
A mouse is a small furry rodent. Unlike rats, mice are looked at more favorably by people. Mice are generally not welcome in a person's home, but it isn't uncommon for mice to be thought of as cute or used as a mascot or figure head of a business, such as Mickey Mouse (Disney) and Chuck E. Cheese's.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 387 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 | :mouse2: |
| Keywords | Mouse, Mice, Rodent |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Animal Symbols |
BTW, mice actually don't really like cheese. If the streets of America were made of cheese, America would have way more foodies and not necessary more mice. Fifel really should have sung a song about the streets in America being made of peanut butter. Now that's a more technically accurate mouse dream song that I'd like to hear.
| 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) | 1f401 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F401 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128001 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x81 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 90 81 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 220 201 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC01 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc01 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56321 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F401 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F401 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128001 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F401" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x90\x81" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC01" |
