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cricket

Cricket

🦗 is a cricket, but in a chat it can mean “crickets”: awkward silence after nobody responds. It turns an unanswered question or failed joke into a dry little sound effect. It can also refer literally to the insect, sometimes mistaken for a grasshopper.

EmojiSince 2017
Also called
crickets · chirping crickets · grasshopper
Search it as
awkward silence emoji
Type it as
:cricket:
Around since
2017 · Emoji 5.0
Shows up on
Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux

What 🦗 means

A cricket—or a pointed comment on the silence.

The joke is that the room is so quiet you can hear crickets chirping. After a message gets no reaction, 🦗 supplies that imaginary soundtrack. In a garden or insect caption, read it literally instead.

Why did someone send me 🦗?

They may be teasing you about the missing response.

That is a jab, not proof that everyone disliked your message. In a playful chat, it can fit the banter; after bad news or in a tense work conversation, skip it.

Dry and teasing as a reaction; literal in nature talk.

After a serious message, it can sound like you are mocking the sender for being ignored.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
A caption about insects or gardens
A literal cricket.
After a joke receives no reaction
The joke fell flat; nobody laughed.
After a question goes unanswered
An impatient or teasing “Anyone going to answer?”

Don't confuse it with

1
🏏
Cricket Game
The bat-and-ball symbol means the sport of cricket; 🦗 is the chirping insect.

Combination ideas

3
Extended, theatrical silence.
Suggested pairing: a performance or joke met with silence.
Suggested pairing: crickets chirping on a camping night.

Worth knowing

  • 🦗 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.

Questions people ask

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Is this a grasshopper emoji?

Not officially. It represents a cricket, though the long hind legs can suggest a grasshopper. If you mean grasshopper, say so in words.

How to type 🦗

Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “cricket”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “cricket”.
Chat apps
:cricket:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.
HTML
🦗
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🦗
HTML hex
🦗
CSS content
content: "\1F997";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A6%97
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Animals & nature145 symbols

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