Mouse face Emoji
Animals
A cartoonish, grey-faced mouse staring directly ahead with large, round ears and a small pink nose. It looks like a standard mascot character often found in children’s books or early computer games.
Usage Context
This emoji is the go-to choice for discussing small rodents, pets, or computer-related jokes. It is frequently used alongside the 🧀 to represent a mouse snacking or when someone wants to express that they are being quiet or 'mousey.'
History
Part of the original Japanese mobile phone sets, the mouse face was officially standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. It serves as a digital nod to the ubiquitous mouse character design seen throughout mid-20th-century animation and early UI iconography.
Details
Glyph
🐭
Unicode
U+1F42D
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f42d:
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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