cockroach

Group: Animals & nature · Subgroup: Animal bug · Emoji 13

Keywords

About this character

cockroach belongs to the Animals & nature group and is encoded at U+1FAB3. It was added in Unicode 13.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1FAB3
Hex: 1FAB3
Decimal: 129715
HTML: 🪳
CSS: \1FAB3
JavaScript: \u{1FAB3}
Python: \U0001FAB3
UTF-8: F0 9F AA B3

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.