What 🐇 means
Usually the animal; context does the extra work.
Beside a pet photo it needs no decoding. In a story it can stand for a fictional rabbit; in an Easter greeting it joins the egg hunt. With no cue at all, take it as the animal and let the rest of the message set the tone.
Cute and lighthearted, but not necessarily affectionate.
A lone 🐇 does not automatically mean Easter.
What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsBeside a pet photo
A literal rabbit or bunny.
With an egg or basket
Easter or an egg hunt.
After the English words “down the”
“Down the rabbit hole”: getting absorbed in a trail of links or ideas.
In a Chinese New Year greeting
The Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac; Vietnam’s Tết calendar has a cat in that slot.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
3Easter bunny and egg.
Easter basket or egg hunt.
Suggested rebus: “down the rabbit hole,” getting drawn into a topic.
Worth knowing
- East Asian folklore puts a rabbit on the Moon: in Chinese tales it pounds an elixir of immortality, in Japanese and Korean ones rice cakes. The Moon’s dark markings are traditionally read as its shape.
Questions people ask
1Why is it called a rabbit hole?
Because of Alice. In Lewis Carroll’s 1865 children’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice follows a hurrying White Rabbit down its hole into a strange world. The phrase now means a bizarre or absorbing situation that is hard to climb out of.
How to type 🐇
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “rabbit”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “rabbit”.
Chat apps
:rabbit2:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🐇Phone
Open the emoji keyboard and search “rabbit” or “bunny”; it sits among the animals near 🐰.
Windows
Press Win + . (period) to open the emoji panel, then type “rabbit”.
Mac
Press Control + Command + Space, then type “rabbit”.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🐇
HTML hex
🐇
CSS content
content: "\1F407";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%90%87
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.