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🪤Mouse Trap Emoji
🪤 mouse trap is encoded at U+1FAA4 and shipped with Emoji 13.0 (2020). Unicode files it under Objects → Household Items, alongside 24 related emojis.
What 🪤 mouse trap means
Chores, cleaning routines and moving-in posts. 🧹 and 🧼 anchor the tidying content, 🛏️ and 🛋️ mean rest, and 🚪 is how people announce leaving a conversation. Emoji 13.0 filled obvious gaps in 2020 with the mirror 🪞, window 🪟, plunger 🪠, mouse trap 🪤 and bucket 🪣. 🧻 gained a second meaning that same year during the panic buying of toilet paper.
Unicode tags this one bait, cheese and lure and files it under Objects → Household Items.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FAA4 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🪤 | |
| HTML decimal | 🪤 | |
| CSS | \1FAA4 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAA4} | |
| Python | \U0001FAA4 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDEA4 | |
| Rust | \u{1faa4} | |
| Swift | \u{1FAA4} | |
| PHP | \u{1FAA4} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%A4 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA A4 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DEA4 | |
| Base64 | 8J+qpA== | |
| Decimal | 129700 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 13.0 (2020) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🪤
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “mouse trap”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bait”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1faa4and 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 🪤 mouse trap emoji mean?+
🪤 is the mouse trap emoji, tagged bait, cheese and lure. Chores, cleaning routines and moving-in posts. 🧹 and 🧼 anchor the tidying content, 🛏️ and 🛋️ mean rest, and 🚪 is how people announce leaving a conversation. Emoji 13.0 filled obvious gaps in 2020 with the mirror 🪞, window 🪟, plunger 🪠, mouse trap 🪤 and bucket 🪣. 🧻 gained a second meaning that same year during the panic buying of toilet paper.
What is the Unicode code for 🪤?+
mouse trap is U+1FAA4. In HTML that is 🪤, in CSS \1FAA4, and in JavaScript \u{1FAA4}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🪤 emoji added?+
mouse trap got its emoji presentation in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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 Household Items in Objects.
Added in Emoji 13.0 (2020)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🪤 mouse trap.