🦗

Cricket Emoji 🦗

Unicode's keywords still list grasshopper next to cricket, and Android drew a grasshopper until a 2018 redraw, but every major set shows a true cricket now. Typed after a joke that flops or a text nobody answers, it means dead silence, a meme older than the emoji itself.

What 🦗 means

A full-length profile of a cricket with a dark brownish body, a pair of antennas on top of its head, two long legs that seem to be folded, and a couple of tiny extensions at the back of the body (which have scientific names that might not be fun nor interesting here).

The 🦗 Cricket emoji refers to the famous artist behind the art of night noises (it's a famous meme format). It signifies summers, a soothing feeling on a summer night, music (their chirps); which often sings out of love or anger, and a source of high protein and vitamins.

How and when to use it

If you're posting anything related to 'the night', like a night portrait, night music, or just some pictures you clicked on your ride last night, you can use 🦗 in such captions. This can be done even while reposting similar posts.
Since crickets are known to sing when they're angry or in love, you can use 🦗 to refer to someone who is like that. If this is you and/or you love crickets, you can use 🦗 in your social media profile name.
If you came across crickets in your garden, you can use 🦗 either while texting someone about it like in an alarming context or even while sharing a cute post about these garden visitors.
🦗 can be used to refer to locusts and other cricket species as well. For instance, if you're reposting or posting about a locust swarm that recently attacked your locality, you can use this emoji in such captions.
Use 🦗 while sharing informative posts on crickets or even cricket memes.

Other Names

🦗 House Cricket
🦗 Bush Cricket
🦗 Orthoptera
🦗 Locust
🦗 Grass Hopper
🦗 Jiminy Cricket
🦗 Gryllidae
🦗 Katydid

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-bug
Codepoints: U+1F997
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :cricket:
Keywords: animal, bug, cricket, grasshopper, insect, Orthoptera

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.