🐀Rat Emoji
Generally, the 🐀 emoji means someone is being annoying, unreliable, or a bit of a pest. People use it to express frustration or mild disapproval in a humorous way.
The 🐀 emoji represents a rat.
- Unicode
- U+1F400
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :rat:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐀 Rat emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 1 of them.
Rat emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F400. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Rat emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :rat:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the rat, code point U+1F400.
How to type the 🐀 Rat emoji
No picker to hand? The rat can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Rat emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the rat as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Rat emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around rat for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🐀, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐀 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🐀 means in other countries
First sign of the Chinese zodiac and a mark of cleverness there, while English slang uses “rat” for a snitch or traitor.
Zodiac symbol tied to wit, resourcefulness and a lucky birth year — genuinely positive.
“Rat” means informer or someone who betrays friends, a real insult in that sense.
Before you send it: Check which reading applies before sending it about a person; as an animal or zodiac note it’s fine.
What 🐀 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F400, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🐀 vs 🎍 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Rat
Code: U+1F400 · added 2015
Shortcode: :rat:
Generally, the 🐀 emoji means someone is being annoying, unreliable, or a bit of a pest.
Unicode name: Pine Decoration
Code: U+1F38D · added 2010
Shortcode: :bamboo:
Generally, 🎍 means “Happy New Year” or wishing someone good luck and prosperity during the Japanese New Year celebrations.
Where the 🐀 Rat emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F400 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Rat was approved as U+1F400 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐀 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.