🦇 Bat

🦇 Bat is one of the mammals in Unicode's Animals & Nature group. People send it when the subject is animal and vampire.

🦇 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. The character has been part of the standard since 2016 (Emoji 3.0). Its code point is U+1F987.

• 🦇 on its own already flags the topic: animal.
• Fits messages about animal and vampire.
• Often seen near 🦫 Beaver, 🐻 Bear and 🦔 Hedgehog.

In the West the bat belongs to Halloween, vampires and everything eerie. In China it is emphatically a symbol of good fortune: the word for bat, fú, sounds exactly like the word for luck. Bats therefore appear on porcelain, furniture and New Year decorations, often in groups of five for the five blessings.

Few animals show so clearly that symbolism attaches not to the creature but to the language that talks about it.

• 🦇🦥 – Bat and Sloth
• 🦇🦫 – Bat with Beaver
• 🦇🐼 – Bat plus Panda
• 🦇🐨 – Bat and Koala
• 🦇🐰 – Bat with Rabbit Face
• 🦇🐻‍❄️ – Bat plus Polar Bear
• 🦇🐻 – Bat and Bear
• 🦇🐿️ – Bat with Chipmunk

Easy to mix up with 🦫 Beaver, 🐻 Bear or 🦔 Hedgehog. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.