Frog is the only emoji in Unicode's amphibian subgroup. This frog emoticon page adds nine one-line text frogs, the frog's pond, its call in twelve languages and ten combos.
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Frog emoticons made of keyboard characters
(°‿‿°) is two degree signs for eyes and two undertie characters for the wide mouth. (o)__(o) is plain ASCII, so it can be typed on any keyboard. Copy (°‿‿°) (°‿‿°) (°‿‿°) for a chorus, or ~~◡~~(°‿‿°)~~◡~~ for a frog between two lily pads.
Ribbit is the American call
Wikipedia's list of sound words gives ribbit for the United States and croak for Britain. A Japanese frog says kero kero, a Korean one gaegul gaegul and a Polish one kum kum. The oldest call here is ancient Greek: brekekekex koax koax.
Lotus and Fly are from Emoji 14.0 and 13.0, so an older device may show an empty box.
蛙 is the Han character Unihan defines as frog: wā in Mandarin, kaeru in Japanese.
Questions and answers
How do you make a frog emoticon with a keyboard?
Type (o)__(o): two pairs of parentheses, the letter o and two underscores, like eyes above the water. The wider-mouthed (°‿‿°) uses the undertie, which has no key on a US keyboard, so copy that one here.
Is there a toad emoji?
No. No emoji is named toad, and CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files nothing under the word. Frog is the closest. In plain text, 蟾 is the Han character Unihan defines as toad.
What does the frog emoji mean?
Unicode gives it a name and no meaning: the character is called Frog face, and CLDR's three search words are animal, face and frog. It has been in the emoji list since Emoji 0.6.
What sound does a frog make in other languages?
By Wikipedia's list: kero kero in Japanese, gaegul gaegul in Korean, guā guā in Mandarin, kva kva in Russian, croa croa in French and kum kum in Polish. Each is a tile here, in its own script.
All 41 frog items
The frog and its pond 7
🐛BugU+1F41B. Filed under garden and insect. Emoji 0.6.
🦗CricketU+1F997. Filed under bug, grasshopper and insect. Emoji 5.0.
🐊CrocodileU+1F40A. Next after Frog in Unicode's list: the first of the reptiles. Emoji 1.0.
🪰FlyU+1FAB0. Filed under insect and pest. Emoji 13.0.
🐸FrogU+1F438. Unicode names the character Frog face. Three search words: animal, face and frog. The only emoji in the subgroup Unicode calls animal-amphibian. Emoji 0.6.
🪷LotusU+1FAB7. Filed under flower, calm and peace. Emoji 14.0.
🌊Water waveU+1F30A. Filed under water, wave and ocean. Nothing in CLDR is filed under pond. Emoji 0.6.
Frog in other writing 3
⿌Frog radicalU+2FCC Kangxi radical frog. Radical 205 of the Kangxi dictionary, a heading and not an everyday character. Unicode maps it to U+9EFD.
蛙Frog, the Han characterU+86D9. Unihan defines it in one word: frog. Mandarin reading wā; kaeru in Japanese.
蟾Toad, the Han characterU+87FE. Unihan defines it as toad. Mandarin reading chán; hikigaeru in Japanese.
Frog emoticons, one line 9
(°‿‿°)A frog face: two eyes and a wide mouth
(°‿‿°) (°‿‿°) (°‿‿°)Three in a chorus
(°‿‿°)~~~~•Tongue out after a fly
(°‿‿°)ノWaving
\(°‿‿°)/Mid-jump, arms up
~~◡~~(°‿‿°)~~◡~~Between two lily pads
(o)__(o)Eyes above the water, in plain ASCII
(°‿‿°) ribbitCalling
(-‿‿-) zzzAsleep
Show all 41 frog items (22 more)
What a frog says, by language 12
ква кваRussian (kva kva)
ケロケロJapanese (kero kero)
呱呱Mandarin (guā guā)
개굴개굴Korean (gaegul gaegul)
brekekekex koax koaxAncient Greek
croa croaFrench
croac croacSpanish and Portuguese
croakEnglish, in Britain
kum kumPolish
kwaak kwaakDutch
quakGerman, as Wiktionary has it
ribbitEnglish, in the United States
Frog combos 10
🐸⬆️Big jumpFrog, then up arrow.
🐸👑Crowned frogFrog, then crown.
🐸🪰Fly for lunchFrog, then fly.
☔🐸Froggy weatherUmbrella with rain drops, then frog.
🐸🦎🐢🐊Green teamFrog, then lizard, then turtle, then crocodile.
🐸👋Hello from the pondFrog, then waving hand.
🐸💨Hop to itFrog, then dashing away.
🪷🐸Lotus perchLotus, then frog.
🌙🐸🦗Night at the pondCrescent moon, then frog, then cricket.
🌧️🐸🎶Rain chorusCloud with rain, then frog, then musical notes.