Cricket Emoji
Animals
A detailed, brown-bodied cricket shown in profile, often depicted with long antennae and powerful hind legs built for leaping.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to represent the literal insect, the sound of chirping on a quiet night, or the awkward silence that follows a bad joke. It is often paired with the night with stars emoji to set a rural scene or with the speech balloon emoji to highlight a moment of dead air in a conversation.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0, the cricket was introduced alongside other common insects to round out the natural world section of the emoji keyboard, responding to long-standing requests for more diverse wildlife representations.
Details
Glyph
🦗
Unicode
U+1F997
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f997:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Animals
Subcategory animal-bug
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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