cricket Emoji
🦗 · U+1F997 · Emoji 5.0
What does the cricket emoji mean?
A cricket, the 🦗 emoji represents the insect, often used literally in discussions about nature, wildlife, or entomology, but also figuratively to convey silence or stillness, as in the phrase "crickets" to describe an awkward or silent moment, and in slang, it can be used to express that something is quiet or uneventful, with the emoji sometimes being used interchangeably with the 🦋 butterfly or 🐝 bee to represent insects in general, although the 🦗 is more specifically associated with the concept of quiet or inactivity, whereas the 🦋 and 🐝 are often used to represent transformation or busy activity, and the 🦗 can also be used to refer to the sport of cricket, particularly in countries where the sport is popular, adding another layer of meaning to the emoji, and it is worth noting that the 🦗 emoji is often confused with the grasshopper emoji, which is not a standard emoji, but rather a common search term used to find the 🦗 emoji.
cricket emoji examples
- just got to the party and it's crickets 🦗
How to copy the cricket emoji
To use the cricket emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1F997), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
Also known as
cricket emoji on different platforms
How the cricket emoji looks on your device and in the openly licensed sets that include it (Twitter / X (Twemoji), Google Noto Color Emoji, OpenMoji). See image credits.



cricket Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🦗 |
| Name | cricket |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Codepoints | U+1F997 |
| Shortcode | :cricket: |
| Sources | Unicode emoji list · codepoints.net |
| Emoji version | 5.0 (2017) |
cricket Emoji FAQ
It is U+1F997, added in Emoji 5.0 (2017). On GitHub, Slack and Discord you can type it as :cricket:.
People also search for the cricket emoji as animal, bug, grasshopper, insect, orthoptera.