🦗Cricket Emoji
Generally, when someone sends the 🦗 emoji, they mean they think you're making a small, annoying noise or being a bit dramatic. It’s a playful jab.
The 🦗 emoji represents a cricket.
- Unicode
- U+1F997
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :cricket:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦗 Cricket emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
People also look for it as grasshopper emoji.
Cricket emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the cricket 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.
Cricket 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 :cricket:.
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+1F997.
How to type the 🦗 Cricket emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F997 when there is no key at all.
Cricket emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cricket 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
Cricket emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cricket 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
Who sent the cricket and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🦗 means in other countries
Mostly means awkward silence in Western meme culture, while in parts of Asia it points to cricket-keeping traditions.
Represents dead silence after an awkward comment or joke that flopped.
Ties to the tradition of keeping crickets as pets and cricket-fighting matches.
Before you send it: Use it for comic timing about silence; it won’t be confused with the sport of cricket.
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: Cricket
Code: U+1F997 · added 2017
Shortcode: :cricket:
Generally, when someone sends the 🦗 emoji, they mean they think you're making a small, annoying noise or being a bit dramatic.
Unicode name: Cricket Game
Code: U+1F3CF · added 2015
Shortcode: :cricket_bat_and_ball:
Basically, it means cricket.
Where the 🦗 Cricket emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the cricket to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F997 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.
Cricket was approved as U+1F997 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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.