Unicode has a rat, two mice and no rat face. This rat emoticon page adds nine one-line text rats and mice, the Rat of the Chinese zodiac and twelve combos.
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Rat emoticons with a tail of tildes
~~~~(__@'> reads from the left: four tildes for the tail, a parenthesis and two underscores for the back, @ for the ear, an apostrophe for the eye and > for the snout. <'@__)~~~~ faces the other way. ~~(_@'> is the mouse, with a shorter tail and back.
Rat or mouse
Rat and Mouse sit side by side at U+1F400 and U+1F401, both from Emoji 1.0. Mouse face is older, from Emoji 0.6. Hamster is the one of the four that CLDR files under pet.
ιΌ covers both animals: Unihan defines the character as rat, mouse.
Mouse trap is from Emoji 13.0, so an older device may show an empty box.
Questions and answers
What is the difference between the rat and mouse emoji?
They are separate characters: Rat is U+1F400 and Mouse U+1F401, both whole animals from Emoji 1.0. Mouse face, U+1F42D, is a third. CLDR's only search words for Rat are animal and rat.
How do you make a rat with keyboard symbols?
Type ~~~~(__@'> in that order: tildes for the tail, then a parenthesis, two underscores, @, an apostrophe and >. Every character is on a US keyboard. Turned around it is <'@__)~~~~, a rat facing left.
Is the Rat the first animal of the Chinese zodiac?
Yes. By Wikipedia the Rat is the first of the repeating twelve-year cycle and belongs to the first earthly branch, ε. Its year is written ιΌ εΉ΄, shΗniΓ‘n. All three are tiles here.
Is there a rat face emoji?
No. Mouse face and Hamster are faces, but the only emoji with the word rat in its name is Rat, a whole animal. For a face, Mouse face is the closest.
All 32 rat items
Rat, mouse and hamster 7
π§Cheese wedgeU+1F9C0. Two search words: cheese and wedge. Emoji 1.0.
π±οΈComputer mouseU+1F5B1 U+FE0F. The other mouse: one of the four emoji CLDR files under the word. Emoji 0.7.
πΉHamsterU+1F439. The near miss, and the one of the four that CLDR files under pet. Emoji 0.6.
πMouseU+1F401. One code point after Rat, and from the same Emoji version. Emoji 1.0.
πMouse faceU+1F42D. The older of the two mice. Emoji 0.6.
πͺ€Mouse trapU+1FAA4. Filed under mouse, cheese and bait. Emoji 13.0.
πRatU+1F400. Two search words: animal and rat. No emoji is named rat face. Emoji 1.0.
Rat and mouse emoticons, one line 9
<'@__)~~~~The same rat, facing left
<'@__)~~~~ γγ₯γΌγγ₯γΌSqueaking in Japanese: chΕ«chΕ«, which Wiktionary also lists as a child's word for mouse
~(__@'> ~(__@'> ~(__@'>Three in a row
~~(_@'>A mouse: a shorter tail and back
~~~~(__@'>A rat walking right: tail, back, ear, eye and snout
~~~~(__@'> ~~(_@'>A rat following a mouse
~~~~(__@'> β’A rat and a wedge of cheese
<'@__)~~~~ squeakSqueaking
~~~~(__@-> zzzAsleep: the eye is a dash
Show all 32 rat items (16 more)
The Rat of the Chinese zodiac 4
εFirst earthly branchU+5B50. Unihan's definition ends with first earthly branch, the branch Wikipedia ties to the Rat. Mandarin reading zΗ.
βΏRat radicalU+2FCF Kangxi radical rat. Radical 208, a dictionary heading and not an everyday character. Unicode maps it to U+9F20.
ιΌ Rat, the Han characterU+9F20. Unihan defines it as rat, mouse, and as Kangxi radical 208. Mandarin reading shΗ; nezumi in Japanese.
ιΌ εΉ΄Year of the Rat, in ChineseU+9F20 U+5E74. ShΗniΓ‘n, as Wikipedia writes it.
Rat and mouse combos 12
π±ππ¨The chaseCat face, then mouse, then dashing away.
ππ§π¨Cheese runRat, then cheese wedge, then dashing away.
πΎπField mouseSheaf of rice, then mouse.
ππ₯First of the twelveRat, then 1st place medal.
πππ§Midnight snackCrescent moon, then rat, then cheese wedge.
π³οΈπMouse holeHole, then mouse.
ππ¦Pack ratRat, then package.
π€«πQuiet as a mouseShushing face, then mouse face.
ππSmell a ratNose, then rat.
ππ¬SqueakMouse face, then speech balloon.
ποΈππΎπTwo mice, two addressesCityscape, then mouse, then sheaf of rice, then mouse.
ππ§§Year of the RatRat, then red envelope. By Wikipedia the Rat is the first animal of the twelve-year cycle.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-01 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, 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. 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). Rat is U+1F400 and Mouse U+1F401, both Emoji 1.0; Mouse face is U+1F42D, Emoji 0.6; Rat is the only entry with the word rat in its name; CLDR lists animal and rat for it and files Mouse face, Mouse, Computer mouse and Mouse trap under mouse. 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). Han definitions and readings are from the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The Kangxi radical is mapped to U+9F20 by the compatibility mapping in UnicodeData.txt. From Wikipedia, Rat (zodiac) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_(zodiac), CC BY-SA 4.0), restated: the Rat is the first of the repeating twelve-year cycle, belongs to the first earthly branch, and its year is written shΗniΓ‘n. The Japanese squeak, chΕ«chΕ«, is from Wiktionary, squeak (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/squeak, CC BY-SA 4.0), and from its entry for the word (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%A1%E3%82%85%E3%81%86%E3%81%A1%E3%82%85%E3%81%86), which also gives it as a child's word for mouse. The nine text rats and mice and the combos are this site's own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, and the Han definitions are Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.