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 Twitter/X

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

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

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