Mouse Emoji

Animals

A small, grey mouse shown in profile, typically facing left with a long pink tail, rounded ears, and whiskers. It represents the common house mouse or a small rodent in a simple, realistic style.

Usage Context

Frequently used when discussing small pets, pests, or biology. It is also a standard go-to in casual conversation for someone acting timid or quiet. When discussing food, it is often paired with the 🧀 emoji to play on the classic cartoon trope of mice loving cheese.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial push to bring common animal icons to mobile messaging platforms. Its design draws from early digital iconography used to represent wildlife in classroom software and animal encyclopedias before social media adoption.

Details

Glyph

🐁

Unicode

U+1F401

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f401:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC01;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository