What 🦇 means
This black bat is shown full length in profile, with beady black eyes, pointed ears, and both slick wings stretched wide to show off its full wingspan.
The 🦇 Bat emoji signifies darkness (both literal and metaphorical), vampirism, the night, and a state of being nocturnal. Besides, it can also suggest the iconic comic book character, Batman, which also made the symbol of a bat about heroism and courage.
How and when to use it
- If you wore an outfit that reflected Halloween (especially when it's not the season), the 'dark side', or even a vampire, and you're posting that memory on your social media handle, you can use 🦇 in the caption.
- Anything related to Batman can be depicted through the 🦇 emoji. For example, if you and your buddies are doing a Batman movie marathon and you're posting social media stories or tweets about the same, then you can use this emoji in those contexts too.
- If it's Halloween and you're eager to set the mood with a social media status, a countdown post, or even a tweet, then you can use 🦇 in those captions or within the tweet too.
- Are you a fan of vampire fanfiction? Or are you in love with Edward Cullen or any other vamp characters? Then you can to use 🦇 in your social media profile name. Tag other vampire-related emojis such as 🧛♂️ Vampire too.
Other Names
- 🦇 Fruit Bat
- 🦇 Batman
- 🦇 Flying Fox
- 🦇 Night Animal
- 🦇 Nocturnal
- 🦇 Vampire Bats
- 🦇 Dracula
- 🦇 Dark Knight
- 🦇 Halloween
- 🦇 Spooky
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
- Codepoints
U+1F987- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:bat:- Keywords
- animal, bat, vampire
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🦇 Bat or ☠️ Skull and Crossbones?
Runs with a crowd
🦇 keeps company in black emojis and halloween emojis and skull emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.