U+1F42D "🐭" Mouse Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🐭
U+1F42D "🐭" Mouse Face is a pictographic representation of a small rodent, typically depicted as a cheerful, cartoonish mouse with round ears, a pink or beige face, and a small nose. Part of the Emoji 1.0 standard and categorized under Animals and Nature, this character is widely used in digital communication to symbolize timidity, humility, small size, or a fondness for cheese, as well as to convey sweetness or a playful, gentle demeanor. It also serves as a visual shorthand for the Chinese zodiac sign of the Rat in contexts where the mouse and rat are considered synonymous.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F42D |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Mouse Face |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🐭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🐭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC2D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F42D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc2d |