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Meaning & usage
What does the Cricket emoji mean?
A cricket, and online the sound of nobody replying at all.
Almost always about silence. One cricket means a quiet room, and two or three make the joke louder.
How to use 🦗 naturally
Posting into a silent group chat, or a joke that lands nowhere. The sport is 🏏.
Animal emoji can be literal, affectionate or symbolic. People often use them for pets and wildlife, but also for personality traits, visual themes and private nicknames.
From standard to slang
The history of 🦗
- 2017
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Cricket was first defined as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. One of the steady annual widenings of the vocabulary.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A green cricket in profile with its back legs raised, added in 2017. The raised legs matter because the emoji is used for a sound, and the pose is where that sound comes from.
- Today
How its use evolved
Posting into a silent group chat, or a joke that lands nowhere. The sport is 🏏.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🦗 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Asked the group three hours ago 🦗
Sent the invoice, and 🦗
Told my best joke to complete 🦗
When to use it
Using 🦗 clearly
Posting into a silent group chat, or a joke that lands nowhere. The sport is 🏏. It lands as cricket emoji or crickets emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the cricket emoji
What does 🦗 mean in a text message?
A cricket, and online the sound of nobody replying at all. Almost always about silence. One cricket means a quiet room, and two or three make the joke louder.
Is 🦗 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are cricket emoji, crickets emoji, silence emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🦗 look different on another device?
U+1F997 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the cricket emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🦗 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the cricket emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🦗 as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🦗 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F997 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🦗 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦗 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F997 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F997} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%97 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F997
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- cricket emojicrickets emojisilence emoji
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