🐁Mouse Emoji
Generally, the mouse emoji just means a mouse. It’s often used to represent the animal itself, or to add a cute, playful element to a message.
The 🐁 emoji represents a little mouse.
- Unicode
- U+1F401
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :mouse2:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐁 Mouse emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Mouse emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the mouse has been drawn in 3 ways.
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.
Mouse emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :mouse2:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F401.
How to type the 🐁 Mouse emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F401 when there is no key at all.
Mouse emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Mouse emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around mouse 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🐁 means in other countries
Reads as small, quiet or timid in most places, with a couple of extra meanings depending on the room.
“Quiet as a mouse” — shy or unnoticed, usually gentle rather than negative.
Can be misread as the computer peripheral rather than the animal.
Before you send it: Clear in casual chat; in a tech-support thread, spell out “mouse” if you mean the rodent.
What 🐁 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the mouse lands changes how it is taken.
🐁 vs 🐭 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Mouse
Code: U+1F401 · added 2015
Shortcode: :mouse2:
Generally, the mouse emoji just means a mouse.
Unicode name: Mouse Face
Code: U+1F42D · added 2010
Shortcode: :mouse:
Generally, the 🐭 emoji just means a mouse.
Where the 🐁 Mouse emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the mouse has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F401 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.
Mouse was approved as U+1F401 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.