U+1F997 · emoji since 2017
The cricket is a green chirping insect of warm summer nights. It means bugs, the outdoors, and that steady evening song.
Online it famously means silence, the awkward crickets when a joke lands flat and nobody says a word.
In texting, 🦗 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🦗 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Cricket emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the cricket emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🦗 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.