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 Microsoft
Category Animals
Subcategory animal-bug
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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