🦗U+1F997
Cricket emoji
A green insect with long hind legs like a grasshopper, this is the chirping cricket. Common uses include crickets and grasshoppers, summer nights, chirping, and as a joke about awkward silence, as in hearing crickets. It shows the insect, not the sport.
- Unicode name
- cricket
- Category
- Animals & nature, Bugs
- Added
- Emoji 5.0 in 2017
- Code points
- U+1F997
- Shortcode
:cricket:- Keywords
- animal, bug, cricket, grasshopper, insect, Orthoptera
How it looks
How to type 🦗
- iPhone and iPad
- Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “cricket”.
- Android
- In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “cricket”.
- Mac
- Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “cricket”.
- Windows
- Press Windows + . (period) and type “cricket”.
- GitHub
- Type :cricket: in an issue, pull request or comment.
In other languages
| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español | grillo | grillo, saltamontes |
| Français | criquet | animal, criquet, insecte, sauterelle |
| Deutsch | Grille | grashüpfer, grille, Grille, Heuschrecke, insekt, tier, zikade |
| Italiano | grillo | animale, cavalletta, insetto, ortottero |
| Português | grilo | gafanhoto, grilo, inseto |
| Nederlands | krekel | dier, insect, krekel, Orthoptera, sprinkhaan |
| Svenska | syrsa | gräshoppa, syrsa |
| Polski | świerszcz | konik, owad, polny, świerszcz, zwierzę |
| Türkçe | cırcır böceği | böcek, çekirge, cırcır böceği, hayvan |
| Русский | сверчок | кузнечик, насекомое, сверчок, цикада |
| Українська | цвіркун | жук, комаха, коник, кукарача, тарган, цвіркун |
| Ελληνικά | τριζόνι | ακρίδα, ακρίδες, έντομο, ορθόπτερα, τριζόνι |
| العربية | جدجد | جدجد, جراد, جندب, حشرة, قبوط |
| עברית | צרצר | חגב, חרק, צרצר |
| فارسی | جیرجیرک | جیرجیرک, حشره، جیرجیرک, زنجره, ملخ |
| हिन्दी | टिड्डा, झींगुर | क्रिकेट, झींगुर, टिड्डा, टिड्डा, झींगुर, टिड्डी |
| বাংলা | ঝিঁঝি পোকা | ঝিঁঝি পোকা, পশু, পশুপাখি, পোকা, ফড়িং |
| Bahasa Indonesia | jangkrik | belalang, hama, insek, jangkrik, serangga |
| Tiếng Việt | dế | bọ, bộ cánh thẳng, châu chấu, côn trùng, dế, động vật |
| ไทย | จิ้งหรีด | จิ้งหรีด, ตั๊กแตน, แมลง |
| 日本語 | バッタ | コオロギ, バッタ, 昆虫, 直翅目, 虫 |
| 한국어 | 귀뚜라미 | 곤충, 귀뚜라미, 동물, 메뚜기, 메뚜기류, 벌레 |
| 中文（简体） | 蟋蟀 | 昆虫, 蚱蜢, 蛐蛐, 蟋蟀 |
| 中文（繁體） | 蟋蟀 | 直翅目, 蚱蜢, 蟋蟀, 蟲子 |
Names in 95 more languages
| Afrikaans | kriek |
|---|---|
| Akan | aketekyere |
| Albanian | karkalec |
| Amharic | ክሪኬት |
| Anii | ntǝrma |
| Armenian | ծղրիդ |
| Assamese | উইচিৰিঙা |
| Azerbaijani | cırcırama |
| Bashkir | сиңерткә |
| Basque | kilker |
| Belarusian | цвыркун |
| Bosnian | cvrčak |
| Breton | krank-raden |
| Bulgarian | щурец |
| Burmese | ပုရစ်ကောင် |
| Cantonese | 草蜢 |
| Catalan | grill |
| Cherokee | ᏔᎳᏚ |
| Chuvash | шӑрчӑк |
| Croatian | cvrčak |
| Czech | cvrček |
| Danish | fårekylling |
| Estonian | kilk |
| Faroese | veggjasmiður |
| Filipino | kuliglig |
| Finnish | sirkka |
| Galician | grilo |
| Georgian | კრიკეტი |
| Gujarati | કંસારી |
| Hausa | gyare |
| Hungarian | tücsök |
| Icelandic | krybba |
| Igbo | ụ̀kpàlà |
| Irish | criogar |
| Javanese | jangkrik |
| Kannada | ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟ್ |
| Kazakh | шегіртке |
| Kazakh (Arabic) | شەگىرتكە |
| Khmer | ចង្រិត |
| Kinyarwanda | kiriketi |
| Konkani | नाकतोडो |
| Kyrgyz | кара чегиртке |
| Kʼicheʼ | Lol |
| Lao | ຈິ້ງຫລີດ |
| Latvian | circenis |
| Lithuanian | svirplys |
| Lower Sorbian | šwjerc |
| Luxembourgish | Cricket |
| Macedonian | штурец |
| Malay | cengkerik |
| Malayalam | ചീവീട് |
| Maltese | cricket |
| Marathi | नाकतोडा |
| Mongolian | хүрэлзгэнэ |
| Māori | kirikiti |
| Nepali | फट्याङ्ग्रा |
| Nigerian Pidgin | Kríkẹt |
| Northern Sotho | khrikete |
| Norwegian | gresshoppe |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | grashoppe |
| Odia | ଝିଣ୍ଟିକା |
| Oromo | kirikeetii |
| Pashto | چورچورک |
| Punjabi | ਟਿੱਡਾ |
| Punjabi (Arabic) | کرکٹ |
| Quechua | cricket |
| Romanian | greier |
| Romansh | grigl |
| Sardinian | grillu |
| Scottish Gaelic | greollan |
| Serbian | зрикавац |
| Serbian (Latin) | zrikavac |
| Shan | ၸၵ်းၸႃႈ |
| Sindhi | تڏ |
| Sinhala | පළගැටියා |
| Slovak | svrček |
| Slovenian | muren |
| Somali | jiiq-jiiqle |
| Swahili | nyenje |
| Tajik | крикет |
| Tamil | இராக்கோழி |
| Telugu | చిమ్మట |
| Tigrinya | ዕንጭራር |
| Tongan | kālihi |
| Tswana | kirikete |
| Turkmen | çybyn |
| Upper Sorbian | šwjerč |
| Urdu | گرگٹ |
| Uyghur | پالاقتوپ |
| Uzbek | qora chigirtka |
| Welsh | criciedyn |
| Wolof | kriket |
| Xhosa | iqakamba |
| Yoruba | tata gígùn |
| Zulu | ikhilikithi |
Codes
- Code points
U+1F997- HTML
🦗- CSS
\1F997- JavaScript, Rust, Swift
\u{1F997}- Python
\U0001F997- UTF-8 bytes
F0 9F A6 97- UTF-16
D83E DD97- URL encoded
%F0%9F%A6%97
Questions
What does the 🦗 cricket emoji mean?
A green insect with long hind legs like a grasshopper, this is the chirping cricket. Common uses include crickets and grasshoppers, summer nights, chirping, and as a joke about awkward silence, as in hearing crickets. It shows the insect, not the sport.
How do I type the 🦗 emoji?
On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “cricket”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :cricket:.
When was the 🦗 emoji added?
🦗 was added in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017.
What is the Unicode code point for 🦗?
U+1F997. In HTML you can write 🦗, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F997}.