Cricket emoji 🦗
Emoji 5.0 (2017) · U+1F997
What 🦗 means
Cricket 🦗 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, bug, grasshopper, insect, Orthoptera.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or bug on your phone to find 🦗.
On the emoji keyboard, 🦗 sits with the bugs (17 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🪳 🕷️ 🕸️ 🦂.
Will 🦗 show on my friend's phone?
🦗 dates from Emoji 5.0 (2017). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🦗
To find 🦗 quickly, type cricket into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type cricket.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type cricket in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type cricket.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦗 as one code point, U+1F997: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F997 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦗 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦗 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F997"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F997} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%97 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 97 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦗 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the cricket emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦗 "cricket" and links it with animal, bug, grasshopper, insect. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the bugs subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the cricket emoji added?
In Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. Phones updated since about 2018 show it.
How do I type the cricket emoji?
To find 🦗 quickly, type cricket into the emoji search.