Mouse face

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Shortcode: :mouse:
Shortcode: :mouse_face:
Unicode: U+1F42D
HTML: 🐭
CSS: \1F42D
JavaScript: "\u{1F42D}"
URL: %F0%9F%90%AD

What 🐭 means

The cartoon face of a mouse, cute and a little timid. It suggests something small, quiet, or shy.

People pair it with 🐱 for cat-and-mouse games or with 🧀 for cheese jokes. It works as a soft, cute reaction, or to describe being "quiet as a mouse."

In Chinese zodiac posts, 🐭 often stands for the Year of the Rat because it looks friendlier than 🐀.

Facts

Mouse face 🐭 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :mouse: or :mouse_face:. People also look for it with words like “animal”, “face”, or “mouse”.