• first of the signs of the Asian zodiac, used in Persia
The mouse emoji shows the whole critter, not the cutesy front view. On Apple/iOS, it’s a small gray mouse in profile facing left, with a pointy snout, tiny black eye, pink inner ear, and a long, thin pink tail curling behind—basically a textbook house mouse doing a humble little stroll. You’ll spot the rounded body, short legs, and neat whiskers that give it that soft, skittish vibe. It’s instantly recognizable as the full-body rodent, not the big-eyed Mouse Face cousin.
Online, 🐁 speaks in whispers: timid, shy, “I’m just a little guy” energy, the digital equivalent of tiptoeing for snacks at 2 a.m. People use it for lurker mode, a squeaky apology, or ironic shade—like “ohhh now you’re quiet 🐁.” It pairs perfectly with cheese jokes, Jerry-from-Tom-and-Jerry throwbacks, Mickey mentions, and the cozy “mouse girl autumn” aesthetic. You’ll also see it subbed in for Rat during Lunar New Year posts, which is culturally nearby but not the same species—still, the internet squeaks where it wants. Bonus chaos: sometimes folks drop 🐁 when they actually mean the computer mouse 🖱️—gamers, we see you. Flirty or playful texts might add a “squeak” for extra kawaii, turning big feelings into small-bean energy.
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" |
