Rat

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Shortcode: :rat:
Unicode: U+1F400
HTML: 🐀
CSS: \1F400
JavaScript: "\u{1F400}"
URL: %F0%9F%90%80

What 🐀 means

A rat, usually meant as an insult. A "rat" is a snitch or a traitor, someone who tells on others or sells them out.

People also use it for city pests, pet rats, and self-labels like "gym rat" or "mall rat" for someone who practically lives somewhere. It appears in Chinese zodiac greetings for the Year of the Rat too.

Pet rat owners use 🐀 with real affection, so tone depends on context.

Facts

Rat 🐀 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :rat:. People also look for it with words like “animal”.