Bat

Meaning and uses

The bat emoji. It stands for Halloween, night and vampires, and it is a common mark of goth and dark aesthetics.

Unicode details

🦇 is the Unicode character named BAT, code point U+1F987, in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block. It was added in Unicode 9.0 in 2016, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is an emoji, listed under the name “bat”, so phones and most apps draw it in colour, and each platform has its own design.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type 🦇

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “bat”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “bat”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 1f987, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use 🦇. In a CSS content property, use "\1F987".