Messaging about Halloween, spooky themes, and vampires
Messaging about Halloween, spooky themes, and vampires.
Animals & Nature
🦇 Bat Emoji
The 🦇 Bat emoji depicts a dark bat with spread wings, commonly used for Halloween, nocturnal themes, night life, or vampire lore.
QUICK FACTS
- Official name
- Bat
- Category
- Animals & Nature
- Subcategory
- Animal Mammal
- Unicode
- U+1F987
- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Unicode version
- 17.0
What Does Mean?
The 🦇 Bat emoji represents a bat. It is widely sent during Halloween celebrations, night life posts, vampire folklore discussions, nocturnal wildlife topics, or dark gothic aesthetics.
Quick Meaning
The 🦇 Bat emoji depicts a dark bat with spread wings, commonly used for Halloween, nocturnal themes, night life, or vampire lore.
Use Cases
How People Use 🦇
Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.
Representing night life, late night hours, and nocturnal nature
Representing night life, late night hours, and nocturnal nature.
Adding a dark aesthetic to posts
Adding a dark aesthetic to posts.
Real Messages
🦇 Emoji Examples
Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 🦇.
“Halloween night is here 🦇”
“Night owl working late 🦇”
“Bats flying at twilight 🦇”
“Spooky season aesthetic 🦇”
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Lookup Data
Names, Keywords and Search Terms
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Official Name
Bat
Subcategory: Animal MammalAliases & Common Names
- bat
- vampire bat
- halloween bat
Keywords & Search Terms
- bat
- halloween
- vampire
- night
- nocturnal
- wings
- animal
Developer Reference
🦇 Emoji Codes
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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F987Code points
U+1F987UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x87UTF-16
\uD83E\uDD87HTML decimal entity
🦇HTML hexadecimal entity
🦇JavaScript escape
\u{1F987}CSS escape
\1F987 Python string
\U0001F987Emoji Styles
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Microsoft Fluent
MIT License
Google Noto
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
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FAQ
Questions About 🦇
Frequently asked questions about meaning, copying, PNG export, and Unicode data.
The 🦇 Bat emoji depicts a dark bat with spread wings, commonly used for Halloween, nocturnal themes, night life, or vampire lore.
Yes. When licensed artwork is available, choose a style and download 1× (128×128), 2× (256×256), 4× (512×512), or 8× (1024×1024) PNG artwork. EmojiMint shows the selected provider, background, and exact pixel dimensions before download.
🦇 represents Bat. It is used for wildlife, nature discussions, pets, and symbolic messaging.
The Unicode code point for 🦇 is U+1F987.
🦇 is usually the more general choice. 🐈⬛ Black Cat is different because represents a feline pet associated with Halloween.
Use the copy button on this page to copy 🦇, or select the emoji character directly and copy it from your browser.