Mouse Face Emoji
A mouse face with big round ears, the everyday mouse emoji in chat.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Mouse Face emoji mean?
A mouse face with big round ears, the everyday mouse emoji in chat.
Small and endearing. It suits shyness and tiny things, and the ears make it more cartoon than rodent.
How to use 🐭 naturally
Pet posts, small-and-quiet jokes and anything with round ears. The full body 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 🐭
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Mouse Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A grey mouse head with oversized round ears, from the carrier set. The ears are drawn far larger than life, and that is what makes it read as cute and not as vermin.
- Today
How its use evolved
Pet posts, small-and-quiet jokes and anything with round ears. The full body 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.
Something is living behind the oven 🐭
She speaks so quietly in meetings 🐭
Tiny portion, tiny price 🐭
When to use it
Using 🐭 clearly
Pet posts, small-and-quiet jokes and anything with round ears. The full body is 🐁. It lands as mouse emoji or 🐭 meaning 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 mouse face emoji
What does 🐭 mean in a text message?
A mouse face with big round ears, the everyday mouse emoji in chat. Small and endearing. It suits shyness and tiny things, and the ears make it more cartoon than rodent.
Is 🐭 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are mouse emoji, 🐭 meaning, small emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🐭 look different on another device?
U+1F42D 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 mouse face 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 mouse face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🐭 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. 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+1F42D | 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 | \1F42D | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F42D} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%90%AD | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F42D
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- mouse emoji🐭 meaningsmall emoji
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