🪤Mouse Trap Emoji
Generally, the 🪤 emoji means someone is playfully teasing you or thinks you’re a bit of a fool. People use it in chats when they’re joking around and want to emphasize that they’re “catching” something about you.
The 🪤 emoji represents a mouse trap.
- Unicode
- U+1FAA4
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :mouse_trap:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🪤 Mouse Trap emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
Mouse Trap emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the mouse trap as 9 vendors ship it.
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 Trap emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :mouse_trap:.
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+1FAA4.
How to type the 🪤 Mouse Trap emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Mouse Trap emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the mouse trap 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
Mouse Trap emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around mouse trap 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
Chat apps do not change U+1FAA4, 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: Mouse Trap
Code: U+1FAA4 · added 2020
Shortcode: :mouse_trap:
Generally, the 🪤 emoji means someone is playfully teasing you or thinks you’re a bit of a fool.
Unicode name: Mouse Face
Code: U+1F42D · added 2010
Shortcode: :mouse:
Generally, the 🐭 emoji just means a mouse.
Where the 🪤 Mouse Trap emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 13.0, the mouse trap has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 6.
Same character every time — U+1FAA4 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 Trap was approved as U+1FAA4 and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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.