Mouse Trap Emoji
What does the Mouse Trap emoji mean?
A mousetrap baited with a small piece of cheese — more often than not used to symbolize entrapment or being lured into a trap.
The image shows a box propped up with a stick and a piece of cheese as bait — a classic mousetrap. It may not directly match the picture, but the trap makes the meaning clear.
Use these emojis to tell someone you're dealing with rodents that have taken up residence in your home. Note that the mousetrap is often used figuratively to point to fraud, danger, or a trap.
Apple Name
- 🪤 Mouse Trap
Unicode Name
- 🪤 Mouse Trap
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Mouse Trap emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🪤 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1FAA4
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%AA%A4 |
| Punycode | xn--c19h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F AA A4 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDEA4 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001faa4 |
| CSS | \01FAA4 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1FAA4} |
| Perl | \x{1FAA4} |
| HTML hex | 🪤 |
| HTML dec | 🪤 |
Tags: bait, mousetrap, mouse trap, snare, trap, cheese, lure, mouse
Category: Objects
Subgroup: Housewares