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

&#xD83E;&#xDD97;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-bug

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.

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