🐀 Rat

A rat, a large rodent with a long tail, known to frequent big cities. Depicted in gray in full profile on all fours facing left, with pink ears, feet, and tail.

May be use for various metaphorical senses of rat. Not to be confused with 🐁 Mouse, which has white hair.

One of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac.

Google’s design is noticeably more cartoon-styled, standing on its hind legs and facing forward with a buck tooth.

Rat was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.