Cockroach Emoji
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What does the Cockroach emoji mean?
1
A small brown cockroach with six legs and long antennae. The word describes the insect in general, and is also used figuratively to call someone a nuisance or a pest.
2
This emoji shows a brown cockroach, rendered differently across platforms — from fairly realistic to more stylized. The insect is shown with six legs and long, curved antennae.
The cockroach commonly evokes disgust, filth, and sloppiness. Although these insects are exceptionally resilient and often hard to get rid of, the cockroach usually carries a negative association rather than a positive one.
Apple Name
- 🪳 Cockroach
Unicode Name
- 🪳 Cockroach
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Cockroach emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🪳 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1FAB3
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%AA%B3 |
| Punycode | xn--r19h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F AA B3 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDEB3 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001fab3 |
| CSS | \01FAB3 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1FAB3} |
| Perl | \x{1FAB3} |
| HTML hex | 🪳 |
| HTML dec | 🪳 |