U+1F987 "🦇" Bat Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦇
U+1F987 "🦇" Bat is a pictorial representation of the small, flying mammal from the order Chiroptera, often depicted in a dark gray or black silhouette with its wings spread wide in a dynamic flying pose. This character belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is commonly used in digital communication to represent bats in contexts such as Halloween, nocturnal wildlife, vampire folklore, or echolocation. Its design varies slightly across different platforms and operating systems, but it universally symbolizes the unique, winged creature that plays a key ecological role in pollination and insect control.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F987 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Bat |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA6 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F987 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd87 |