🖱Computer Mouse Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you a 🖱 emoji, they’re just referencing a mouse or computer. It's a quick way to say they’re talking about using a computer or clicking something online.
The 🖱 emoji represents a computer mouse.
- Unicode
- U+1F5B1
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :three_button_mouse:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🖱 Computer Mouse emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 2.
Computer Mouse emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F5B1. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 8.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
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.
Computer Mouse emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :three_button_mouse:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F5B1.
How to type the 🖱 Computer Mouse emoji
No picker to hand? The computer mouse can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Computer Mouse emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the computer mouse as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Computer Mouse emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around computer 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 on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🖱 vs 🖥 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Computer Mouse
Code: U+1F5B1 · added 2014
Shortcode: :three_button_mouse:
Generally, when someone sends you a 🖱 emoji, they’re just referencing a mouse or computer.
Unicode name: Desktop Computer
Code: U+1F5A5 · added 2014
Shortcode: :desktop_computer:
Generally, it just means “computer screen” or “desktop.
Where the 🖱 Computer Mouse emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F5B1 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.
Computer Mouse was approved as U+1F5B1 and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). 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, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.