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🦗Cricket Emoji
The cricket emoji 🦗 carries the codepoint U+1F997 and has been in the standard since Emoji 5.0 (2017). It belongs to Animals & Nature → Bugs.
What 🦗 cricket means
Insects here are used less for entomology than for feelings and jokes. 🐛 is a software defect far more often than a caterpillar, 🦋 stands for transformation or nervous butterflies, 🐝 signals busyness or a fandom, and 🕷️🕸️ decorate Halloween. 🦠 microbe shipped in Emoji 11.0, two years before the pandemic that made it a daily character.
Unicode tags this one animal, bug and grasshopper and files it under Animals & Nature → Bugs.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F997 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🦗 | |
| HTML decimal | 🦗 | |
| CSS | \1F997 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F997} | |
| Python | \U0001F997 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD97 | |
| Rust | \u{1f997} | |
| Swift | \u{1F997} | |
| PHP | \u{1F997} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A6%97 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 97 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD97 | |
| Base64 | 8J+mlw== | |
| Decimal | 129431 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 5.0 (2017) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🦗
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “cricket”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “animal”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f997and Enter. - HTML — paste
🦗.
How 🦗 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🦗Apple
- 🦗Segoe
- 🦗Noto
- 🦗System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🦗 cricket emoji mean?+
🦗 is the cricket emoji, tagged animal, bug and grasshopper. Insects here are used less for entomology than for feelings and jokes. 🐛 is a software defect far more often than a caterpillar, 🦋 stands for transformation or nervous butterflies, 🐝 signals busyness or a fandom, and 🕷️🕸️ decorate Halloween. 🦠 microbe shipped in Emoji 11.0, two years before the pandemic that made it a daily character.
What is the Unicode code for 🦗?+
cricket is U+1F997. In HTML that is 🦗, in CSS \1F997, and in JavaScript \u{1F997}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🦗 emoji added?+
cricket got its emoji presentation in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Bugs in Animals & Nature.
Added in Emoji 5.0 (2017)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🦗 cricket.