Cricket
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- Shortcode
:cricket:- Unicode
U+1F997- HTML
🦗- CSS
\1F997- JavaScript
"\u{1F997}"- URL
%F0%9F%A6%97
What 🦗 means
A cricket, the chirping insect. Online it stands for silence: "crickets" means nobody answered.
People send 🦗 after a question in a group chat gets no reply, or after a joke falls flat. It also covers summer night sounds and insects for pet reptiles.
This is the insect. For the sport, use 🏏.
Facts
Cricket 🦗 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal bug. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :cricket:. People also look for it with words like “Orthoptera”, “animal”, “bug”, or “grasshopper”.
Timeline
- 2017Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 5.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2018
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2017
2021
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.