Unicode has one bat emoji: Bat, U+1F987, Emoji 3.0. CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, gives it three: animal, bat and vampire. Halloween is not one. Below sit 75 more: night company, text bats, lines and ASCII art. Bat emoji copy and paste, wings included.
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What the word bat finds
CLDR files three emoji under bat, and two are sports: Cricket game, which Unicode names Cricket bat and ball, and Ping pong. No emoji is a baseball bat; Baseball turned up alone. Vampire finds five: three vampires, the bat and Coffin.
Bat symbols, no emoji
For bat symbol copy and paste, plain text offers little. Yi syllable bat, U+A01E, is the one ordinary character with bat as a whole word of its name, and it spells a sound. Unihan defines two Han characters as bat. One is read fΓΊ in Mandarin, as is the character for good fortune, which Wikipedia's Bat article says bats have been associated with in China.
Tips
CLDR has nothing under cave or belfry, so cave leads with Rock, belfry with Bell, and flittermouse, a dialect name for bats, finds only Mouse.
The three vampires take a skin tone. Wing is Emoji 15.0, the newest here: an empty box on an older phone.
The six ASCII bats need a monospaced font to stay level. Bat, roosting hangs from a branch, ears pointing at the floor.
Questions and answers
Is the bat a Halloween emoji?
Not by Unicode's filing: CLDR lists eleven emoji under halloween and the bat is not among them. Wikipedia's Bat article says the West associates bats with darkness, witchcraft and vampires, which would explain the decorations. Halloween ASCII art has the rest of the porch.
Are bats really blind?
No. Wikipedia's Bat article says no species is truly blind, and microbats use echolocation besides. It calls bats the only mammals capable of sustained flight; when not flying they hang upside down from their feet, a posture known as roosting. Upside-down face covers the posture.
How do I paste a bat where emoji are not allowed?
Use a text bat. Ten fit on one line, and seven are keyboard characters only. The bat with curved wings borrows four bracket hooks and a Glagolitic letter, so it shows empty boxes where a font lacks them. One-line ASCII art keeps more single-row drawings.
βΎBaseballU+26BE. The ball turned up without the bat: its three search words are ball, baseball and sport, and no emoji is a baseball bat. It has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
π¦BatU+1F987. Three search words in CLDR: animal, bat and vampire. Halloween is not among them. Unicode files it between the hedgehog and the bear. Emoji 3.0.
πCricket gameU+1F3CF. The second thing a search for bat finds. Unicode's name for it is Cricket bat and ball, one of three characters with bat as a whole word of the name. Emoji 1.0.
πPing pongU+1F3D3. The third. Unicode names it Table tennis paddle and ball, and CLDR files it under bat and paddle both, which settles nothing. Emoji 1.0.
Show all 76 bat things (72 more)
Night company: vampires, moons and an owl 11
πBellU+1F514. CLDR files it under church, which is as near as emoji get to a belfry. Search belfry and it answers. Emoji 0.6.
πCityscape at duskU+1F306. CLDR files it under dusk and evening. Wikipedia's Bat article says most bats are nocturnal, so this is when the roost empties. Emoji 0.6.
β°οΈCoffinU+26B0 U+FE0F. The fifth emoji under vampire. Its other search words are coffin, dead and death. It has a text form. Emoji 1.0.
πCrescent moonU+1F319. Unicode's notes say it may indicate either the first or last quarter moon. For a bat it indicates breakfast. Emoji 0.6.
πFull moonU+1F315. The backdrop for a bat in silhouette. It has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
π§ββοΈMan vampireU+1F9DB U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. The vampire with a male sign joined on, so it is four code points long. It takes a skin tone. Emoji 5.0.
πNew moonU+1F311. CLDR files it under dark, which is how a bat likes it. Emoji 0.6.
πNight with starsU+1F303. Three search words: night, star, stars. Emoji 0.6.
π¦OwlU+1F989. The other night flier. It arrived in Emoji 3.0, the same release as the bat. Emoji 3.0.
π§VampireU+1F9DB. CLDR files five emoji under vampire: this one, the two below, the bat and the coffin. It takes a skin tone. Emoji 5.0.
π§ββοΈWoman vampireU+1F9DB U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. The vampire joined to a female sign. CLDR gives all three the word fangs, and gives the bat none. Emoji 5.0.
What a bat eats, and where it sleeps 12
πBananaU+1F34C. More fruit. CLDR gives it three words and one of them is potassium. Emoji 0.6.
πͺ²BeetleU+1FAB2. Third course. CLDR files it under bug and insect. Emoji 13.0.
π¦CricketU+1F997. The insect, which the article also lists. Not Cricket game, which is the one CLDR files under bat. Emoji 5.0.
πͺ°FlyU+1FAB0. Also on the list. CLDR files it under pest, and the bat is the pest control. Emoji 13.0.
πΊHibiscusU+1F33A. For the nectar drinkers. The article says these bats serve as pollinators: the pollen sticks to their fur while they feed. Emoji 0.6.
π₯MangoU+1F96D. The article says many bats eat insects and most of the rest eat fruit or nectar. CLDR files the mango under tropical. Emoji 11.0.
π¦MosquitoU+1F99F. Wikipedia's Bat article lists flies, mosquitos, beetles and moths among what an insect-eating bat catches. No emoji is a moth. Emoji 11.0.
πMouseU+1F401. The article gives a dialect English name for bats, flittermouse, to match the German Fledermaus. Search flittermouse and the mouse answers. Emoji 1.0.
πͺ¨RockU+1FAA8. The article says many bats roost in caves. CLDR lists nothing under cave, so a rock stands in. Search cave and it answers. Emoji 13.0.
πUpside-down faceU+1F643. When not flying, bats hang upside down from their feet, and the article calls the posture roosting. The only emoji with upside-down in its name. Emoji 1.0.
πͺ½WingU+1FABD. Feathered, and from Emoji 15.0. CLDR files it under bird and angelic. A bat's wing, by the article, is a thin membrane over long spread fingers, and no emoji draws that. Emoji 15.0.
π€ZzzU+1F4A4. What a nocturnal animal is doing while you read this in daylight. Emoji 0.6.
Bat symbols, no emoji 8
θ Bat, as a Han characterU+8760. Unihan defines it as bat and reads it fΓΊ in Mandarin, the same reading it gives the character for good fortune, two tiles along.
θBat, the other Han characterU+8759. Unihan defines this one as bat as well, read biΔn.
β½First quarter moon, plainU+263D First quarter moon. The same crescent facing the other way, with the same note about silver.
η¦Good fortune, as a Han characterU+798F. Unihan defines it as happiness, good fortune, blessing, read fΓΊ. Wikipedia's Bat article says that in China bats have been associated with happiness, joy and good fortune.
βΎLast quarter moon, plainU+263E Last quarter moon. A crescent that is not an emoji, so it takes the colour of your words. Unicode's notes give its other job as the alchemical symbol for silver.
ε€Night, as a Han characterU+591C. Unihan defines it as night, dark; in night; by night.
ηΏΌWings, as a Han characterU+7FFC. Unihan's definition opens with wings and moves on to fins on fish.
κYi syllable batU+A01E Yi syllable bat. The only plain-text character with bat as a whole word of its name. It spells a sound in the Yi script and has nothing to do with the animal. It shows as an empty box where no font has it.
Text bats, one line each 10
/(^,..,^)\Fangs out, wings folded
/\/\(-.-)/\/\Zigzag wings, daytime
/|\ ^._.^ /|\The keyboard bat: three strokes to a wing
ββ(β’β± β’)β βWings of bracket hooks, a Glagolitic mouth
βΎ /|\ ^._.^ /|\ β½The keyboard bat between two plain moons
/\/\(o.o)/\/\Zigzag wings, eyes open
\|/ v._.v \|/The same bat roosting: every stroke flipped
^v^A bat a long way off, three characters
βΎ ^v^A plain moon and a distant bat, no emoji
^v^ ^v^ ^v^Three leaving the roost
Bat lines 14
π¦ππ¦ππ¦ππ¦Border row, bats and moons
π Bats in the belfry π¦The idiom, with the nearest thing to a belfry
π¦ Dinner is served π¦Insects first
π¦ Do not disturb: roosting π€A sign for the door
π¦ Going a bit batty π¦A status report
π¦ Happy Halloween from the belfry π¦The seasonal one
π¦ Just hanging around π¦Roosting, in so many words
π¦ Night shift π¦A bat at each end
π¦ Not blind. Just ignoring you π¦No species of bat is truly blind
π¦ The only mammal that really flies π¦A boast, and a true one
π¦ Out at dusk, back by dawn π¦The commute
π Up all night, asleep all day π¦The timetable
βΎ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ β½No emoji: a divider of moons and bats
^v^ Night shift ^v^No emoji: a three-character bat each side
ASCII bats 6
Bat with its wings outEars, eyes and two scalloped wings in four rows. Plain ASCII, 19 columns wide.
Bat, roostingFeet on the branch, wings wrapped, ears pointing at the floor. Plain ASCII, 13 columns wide.
Bat, up closeMostly ears, which is accurate. Plain ASCII, 13 columns wide.
Bats leaving the belfryA tower, a bell and the four bats who live over it. Plain ASCII, 21 columns wide.
Cave, occupiedEight pairs of eyes in the dark. Plain ASCII, 24 columns wide.
Dusk flightFive bats over a row of rooftops. Plain ASCII, 24 columns wide.
Bat combos 11
π¦π¦π¦A small colonyBat 3 times. Three. A real colony runs rather larger.
π¦ππ¦Across the moonBat, then full moon, then bat. The silhouette shot.
ππ¦π¦Bats in the belfry, in emojiBell, then bat twice. A bell, because nothing in CLDR answers to belfry.
ππ¦Clocking onCrescent moon, then bat. The moon is up, so the bat is too.
π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦Five batsBat 5 times. Wikipedia's Wufu article describes a Chinese motif of five bats round the character for longevity, standing for the five blessings.
π¦π₯πFruit batBat, then mango, then banana. For the ones that leave the insects alone.
π¦ππNot that kind of batBat, then cricket game, then ping pong. Everything CLDR files under bat, in one paste.
π§π¨π¦The quick changeVampire, then dashing away, then bat. CLDR files the bat under vampire. This is presumably why.
ππ¦π¦π¦The roost emptiesCityscape at dusk, then bat 3 times. Dusk, then everybody out.
ππ¦π€RoostingUpside-down face, then bat, then ZZZ. Upside down and asleep, which is a bat's whole day.
π¦π¦πͺ°πͺ²Tonight's menuBat, then mosquito, then fly, then beetle. All three are on the Bat article's list of what insect-eaters catch.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. The search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml, main branch). CLDR gives the bat three search words (animal, bat, vampire). It lists bat for three emoji (bat, cricket game, ping pong), vampire for five (three vampires, the bat, the coffin) and halloween for eleven, none of them the bat; it lists nothing for cave, belfry, moth, roost, echo or fang. The first group is the three emoji under bat plus the baseball, which has no bat; the night company and the food are our own picks. The text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. Notes about what a character is used for come from the annotations in NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). Three characters have BAT as a whole word of the name: U+1F987 Bat, U+1F3CF Cricket bat and ball and U+A01E Yi syllable bat. U+A01E, U+263D and U+263E are not in emoji-test.txt. Meanings of Chinese characters come from the kDefinition field of Unihan_Readings.txt in Unihan.zip, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The Mandarin readings (fΓΊ for U+8760 and U+798F, biΔn for U+8759) are the kMandarin values of the same file. What the page says about the animal (the only mammals capable of sustained flight, roosting upside down, no species truly blind, insects first and fruit or nectar for most of the rest, pollination, caves, flittermouse and Fledermaus, the association with good fortune in China and with vampires in the West, echolocation in microbats) is from the English Wikipedia article Bat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat); three species that feed solely on blood is from Vampire bat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_bat); the five bats round the character for longevity is from Wufu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wufu). All three were read on 2026-09-19. The 10 one-line text bats, 14 lines, 6 ASCII drawings and 11 combos are this site's own work, apart from two one-line bats that have long circulated without an author (the three-stroke keyboard bat and the one with bracket hooks for wings): the emoji in them are fetched by name from emoji-test.txt, the plain characters by name from UnicodeData.txt, and the drawings were made for this page. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work