Cricket Emoji
What does the Cricket emoji mean?
A vibrant green (occasionally brown) cricket stands on all six legs, facing left. Widely used to illustrate insect-related content.
This smiley is commonly called a cricket, though many people also associate it with a grasshopper. Across platforms it appears in different colors—brown, green, or gray.
Crickets are most often heard at night. The grasshopper image is often used playfully to refer to a bad joke. If you enjoy the humorous genre, you’ve likely noticed the cricket chirp sound that plays in videos after an awkward or unsuccessful joke.
Also Known As
- 🦗 Grasshopper
Apple Name
- 🦗 Cricket
Unicode Name
- 🦗 Cricket
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Cricket emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🦗 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F997
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%97 |
| Punycode | xn--nt9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 97 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDD97 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f997 |
| CSS | \01F997 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F997} |
| Perl | \x{1F997} |
| HTML hex | 🦗 |
| HTML dec | 🦗 |
Tags: cricket, grasshopper, animal, bug, insect, Orthoptera
Category: Animals & Nature
Subgroup: Bugs