🐇 Rabbit

The 🐇 Rabbit emoji belongs to the mammals, filed by Unicode under Animals & Nature. It usually appears in messages about animal, bunny and pet.

🐇 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. It joined the standard with Emoji 1.0 in 2015, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F407.

• 🐇 on its own already flags the topic: animal.
• Fits messages about animal, bunny and pet.
• Often seen near 🐰 Rabbit Face, 🐿️ Chipmunk and 🐹 Hamster.

The Easter bunny is a German invention: first described in 1682, it travelled with emigrants to Pennsylvania and from there around the world. Australia, by contrast, promotes the Easter Bilby, because introduced rabbits are an ecological disaster there.

In East Asia the moon is seen to hold a rabbit pounding an elixir. In Christian iconography the hare stood for fertility and – through its watchfulness – for resurrection.

• 🐇🐭 – Rabbit and Mouse Face
• 🐇🦫 – Rabbit with Beaver
• 🐇🐰 – Rabbit plus Rabbit Face
• 🐇🐻‍❄️ – Rabbit and Polar Bear
• 🐇🐻 – Rabbit with Bear
• 🐇🐿️ – Rabbit plus Chipmunk
• 🐇🦇 – Rabbit and Bat
• 🐇🐀 – Rabbit with Rat

Easy to mix up with 🐰 Rabbit Face, 🐿️ Chipmunk or 🐹 Hamster. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.