# 🐀 Rat emoji

🐀 Rat is an emoji in the mammals set of Animals & nature. It was added in Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Related words: animal.

- Emoji: 🐀
- Unicode name: rat
- Code points: U+1F400
- Category: Animals & nature, Mammals
- Added: Emoji 1.0 (2015)
- GitHub shortcode: :rat:
- Keywords: animal, rat
- Page: https://emojichart.com/rat-emoji

## What it means

With a long, thin tail, this rat is shown in profile. People use it for rats and rodents, city pests, the Chinese zodiac rat, and as slang for a traitor or informer who rats someone out.

## How to type 🐀

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “rat”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “rat”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “rat”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “rat”.
- GitHub: Type :rat: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | rata | rata, roedor |
| Français (fr) | rat | animal, rat |
| Deutsch (de) | Ratte | Nagetier, Ratte, Tier |
| Italiano (it) | ratto | animale, animali, fogna, ratto, topastro, topo |
| Português (pt) | rato | animal, ratazana, rato |
| Nederlands (nl) | rat | dier, rat |
| Svenska (sv) | råtta | djur, råtta |
| Polski (pl) | szczur | gryzoń, mysz, szczur, szczurek, zwierzę |
| Türkçe (tr) | sıçan | hayvan, kemirgen, lağım faresi, sıçan |
| Русский (ru) | крыса | грызун, крыса |
| Українська (uk) | щур | пацюк, тварина, щур |
| Ελληνικά (el) | αρουραίος | αρουραίος, ζώο |
| العربية (ar) | جرذ | جردون, جرذ, حيوان, فأر, فأر كبير |
| עברית (he) | חולדה | חולדה, עכבר, עכברוש |
| فارسی (fa) | موش صحرایی | خرموش, موش, موش صحرایی |
| हिन्दी (hi) | चूहा | चूहा, पशु |
| বাংলা (bn) | ইঁদুর,মাউস | ইঁদুর, ইঁদুর,মাউস, পশুপাখি, মাউস |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | tikus | binatang, hewan, tikus |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | chuột cống | chuột cống, động vật |
| ไทย (th) | หนูตัวใหญ่ | สัตว์, หนู, หนูตัวใหญ่ |
| 日本語 (ja) | ネズミ | ねずみ, ネズミ, ラット, 動物 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 쥐 | 동물, 생쥐, 쥐 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 耗子 | 耗子, 鼠 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 老鼠 | 動物, 老鼠, 耗子, 鼠 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): rot
- Akan (ak): kusie
- Albanian (sq): mi
- Amharic (am): አይጠሞጎጥ
- Anii (blo): ʊshiresʊra
- Armenian (hy): առնետ
- Assamese (as): এন্দুৰ
- Azerbaijani (az): siçovul
- Bashkir (ba): ҡомаҡ
- Basque (eu): arratoia
- Belarusian (be): пацук
- Bosnian (bs): pacov
- Breton (br): razh
- Bulgarian (bg): плъх
- Burmese (my): ကြွက်
- Cantonese (yue): 鼠
- Catalan (ca): rata
- Cherokee (chr): ᎧᏂᏈᏌ
- Chuvash (cv): йӗкехӳре
- Croatian (hr): štakor
- Czech (cs): krysa
- Danish (da): rotte
- Estonian (et): rott
- European Portuguese (pt-PT): ratazana
- Faroese (fo): rotta
- Filipino (fil): daga
- Finnish (fi): rotta
- Galician (gl): rata
- Georgian (ka): ვირთხა
- Gujarati (gu): ઉંદર
- Hausa (ha): ɓera
- Hungarian (hu): patkány
- Icelandic (is): rotta
- Igbo (ig): oke
- Irish (ga): francach
- Javanese (jv): tikus got
- Kalaallisut (kl): rotte
- Kannada (kn): ಇಲಿ
- Kazakh (kk): егеуқұйрық
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): ەگەۋقۇيرىق
- Khmer (km): កណ្ដុរ
- Kinyarwanda (rw): imbeba
- Konkani (kok): कोळहुंदिर
- Kyrgyz (ky): келемиш
- Kʼicheʼ (quc): B’ayi’s
- Lao (lo): ໜູໃຫຍ່
- Latvian (lv): žurka
- Lithuanian (lt): žiurkė
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): ratwa
- Luxembourgish (lb): Rat
- Macedonian (mk): стаорец
- Malay (ms): tikus
- Malayalam (ml): എലി
- Maltese (mt): far
- Marathi (mr): घूस
- Mongolian (mn): харх
- Māori (mi): kiore rahi
- Nepali (ne): मुसा
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Rat
- Northern Sotho (nso): legotlo
- Norwegian (no): rotte
- Odia (or): ବଡ଼ ମୂଷା
- Oromo (om): hantuuta
- Pashto (ps): صحرایی موږک
- Punjabi (pa): ਕਾਲਾ ਚੂਹਾ
- Punjabi (Arabic) (pa-Arab): چووا
- Quechua (qu): rata
- Romanian (ro): șobolan
- Romansh (rm): ratun
- Sardinian (sc): ratu
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): radan
- Serbian (sr): пацов
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): pacov
- Shan (shn): ၼူ
- Sindhi (sd): چوهو
- Sinhala (si): ලොකු මීයා
- Slovak (sk): potkan
- Slovenian (sl): podgana
- Somali (so): jiir
- Swahili (sw): panya
- Tajik (tg): каламуш
- Tamil (ta): எலி
- Telugu (te): ఎలుక
- Tigrinya (ti): ራት
- Tongan (to): kumā
- Tswana (tn): legotlo
- Turkmen (tk): alaka
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): šćura
- Urdu (ur): چوہا
- Uyghur (ug): تورقا
- Uzbek (uz): kalamush
- Welsh (cy): llygoden fawr
- Wolof (wo): kaña
- Xhosa (xh): ibuzi
- Yoruba (yo): Ekute
- Zulu (zu): igundane lasendle

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F400` |
| HTML | `🐀` |
| CSS | `\1F400` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F400}` |
| Python | `\U0001F400` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F 90 80` |
| UTF-16 | `D83D DC00` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%90%80` |

## Questions

### What does the 🐀 rat emoji mean?

With a long, thin tail, this rat is shown in profile. People use it for rats and rodents, city pests, the Chinese zodiac rat, and as slang for a traitor or informer who rats someone out.

### How do I type the 🐀 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “rat”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :rat:.

### When was the 🐀 emoji added?

🐀 was added in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🐀?

U+1F400. In HTML you can write 🐀, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F400}.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/rat-emoji