🪳Cockroach Emoji
Generally, the 🪳 emoji means “that’s disgusting” or “that’s a problem. ” People use it to show they find something really unpleasant.
The 🪳 emoji is a cockroach.
- Unicode
- U+1FAB3
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :cockroach:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🪳 Cockroach emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Cockroach emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FAB3 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your cockroach looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Cockroach 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 :cockroach:.
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+1FAB3.
How to type the 🪳 Cockroach emoji
No picker to hand? The cockroach can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Cockroach emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cockroach 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
Cockroach emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cockroach 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 cockroach and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🪳 means in other countries
Almost universally disgusting as a pest, and historically used as dehumanizing language against ethnic groups.
Shorthand for filth, pests, or something that stubbornly refuses to die.
Used in Rwanda and elsewhere to dehumanize targeted ethnic groups before violence.
Calling a person a cockroach is a serious dehumanizing slur, not mild teasing.
Before you send it: Never use it to describe a person or group; keep it strictly to talk about actual pests.
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.
Where the 🪳 Cockroach emoji came from
It arrived with the 13.0 release of the standard, which dates the cockroach to 2020.
Same character every time — U+1FAB3 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.
Cockroach was approved as U+1FAB3 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.