🐭

Mouse Face Emoji 🐭

'Quiet as a mouse' is the idiom baked into this small rodent's face, with its big round ears and pink nose. The literal animal gets covered too, along with self-deprecating jokes about feeling shy or timid in a group.

What 🐭 means

The face of a little mouse, showing its blank eyes, round ears, long whiskers, little nose, and a pair of elongated incisors coming out of its mouth. This emoji mainly suggests cuteness and mischief.

Different platforms vary in their designs of this particular emoji. Some are white, some grey. Some don't display teeth, while some show its mouth open.

How and when to use it

The 🐭 emoji can also be used just as a way as appearing cute and playful.
Someone with buck teeth can be made fun of using 🐭. (Beware. It's rude.)
A person being suspiciously quiet can be represented through 🐭.
🐭 can also depict a sense of innocence.
When the conversation literally involves a mouse, there's no better emoji than 🐭.

Other Names

🐭 Mouse
🐭 Rat
🐭 Rat Face
🐭 Jerry
🐭 House Mouse
🐭 White Mice
🐭 Rodent
🐭 Mousey

🐭 in real conversations

Is 🐭 the same as 🐁?

🐭 is Mouse Face, a cartoon head used with real affection, the cute reading. 🐁 shows the full-bodied animal and reads more literally, closer to an actual rodent than a character. Both landed in Unicode 6.0 back in 2010, but the face version carries the emotional weight in everyday texting.

What does 🐭 mean in texting?

Small, shy or quiet, tied to the old line 'quiet as a mouse' for someone timid or trying not to be noticed. It can also just mean someone is being adorable in a modest, unassuming way. It rarely carries the negative baggage that 🐀 or full-bodied 🐁 sometimes pick up.

What does 🐭 mean from a girl?

Often self-deprecating cuteness, calling herself small, shy, or the quiet one in the group. It leans soft and a little vulnerable rather than confident, closer to Mickey Mouse's wholesome cartoon energy than to anything about actual rodents. Sent about someone else, it reads as an affectionate 'you're adorable.'

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
Codepoints: U+1F42D
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :mouse::mouse_face: Discord
Keywords: animal, face, mouse

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.