'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
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🐭 Mouse Face or 🇱🇻 Flag: Latvia?