• fifth of the signs of the Asian zodiac, used in Persia
This scaly legend brings swamp royalty and ancient-bite energy to your texts—perfect for saying “watch your step,” “I’m tough-skinned today,” or just serving big apex vibes. People also drop it to call out “crocodile tears” (fake sympathy), or as a playful “I bite” flirt/tease, complete with chomp jokes and snappy comebacks. It shows up in sports trash talk and Florida/Aussie threads, and often stands in for Gators fandom, Crocs shoes, or even the Lacoste polo logo.
On Apple/iOS it appears as a bright green crocodile in side profile on all fours, with a ridged, darker-scaled back, a pale yellow belly, and a long, tapering tail. The mouth is closed with a calm, almost bored expression—more stealth mode than jump-scare—and the clean outlines plus soft shading make it instantly recognizable in chats.
Expect it in memes about “don’t get too close,” stealthy lurking, or anything that needs prehistoric energy without summoning a T-rex. It pairs nicely with water or wave emojis for river-ambush vibes, or with a crying face to accuse someone of dramatic, performative sobbing. Cultural shout-outs range from Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin to Everglades headlines and the timeless “see you later, alligator—after a while, crocodile,” used online with equal parts irony and dad-joke pride.
A crocodile is a reptile that lives in or around water. A crocodile's most striking feature is its large toothy mouth. Referred to as a "croc" for short. Similar in appearance, but biologically different, to an alligator (gator). Feeling a little cranky, this is the emoji to use, nothing like a pithy way to communicate being a cranky crocodile. The most famous fictitious crocodile is the croc from Peter Pan. Captain Hook lost his hand to the chomp of a crocodile and has ever since run from the ticking sound of a clock stuck in the crocodile's stomach. Tick tock tick tock.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 219 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 | :crocodile: |
| Keywords | Crocodile, Croc, Alligator, Gator, Cranky |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Animal Symbols |
| 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) | 1f40a |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F40A |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128010 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x8A |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 90 8A |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 220 212 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC0A |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc0a |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56330 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F40A |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F40A |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128010 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F40A" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x90\x8a" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC0A" |
