🦇 Bat is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F987 and it was released in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🦇 Bat mean?
🦇 is the Bat emoji, listed under Animals & Nature → Mammals in the Unicode emoji standard. People often use it in messages about animal and vampire. It was approved as part of Emoji 3.0 in 2016 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :bat: to insert it.
Bat emoji codes
| Emoji | 🦇 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F987 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🦇 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🦇 |
| CSS | \1F987 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F987} |
| Python | \U0001F987 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%87 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 87 |
| Shortcode | :bat: |
How to type 🦇 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “bat”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “bat”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “bat”.
- HTML: write
🦇in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Bat keywords
- animal
- vampire
Frequently asked questions
What does 🦇 mean?
🦇 is the Bat emoji, listed under Animals & Nature → Mammals in the Unicode emoji standard. People often use it in messages about animal and vampire. It was approved as part of Emoji 3.0 in 2016 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :bat: to insert it.
How do I copy and paste the Bat emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🦇 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🦇 Bat added to Unicode?
Bat was released as part of Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
Related Mammals emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.