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
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Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category Animals
Subcategory animal-mammal
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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