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🦇 Bat

Also known as: Batman

Unicode: U+1F987

Description

A bat, the flying mammal of the night. Variously depicted as a brown, black, or gray bat, with wings outspread and pointy ears, facing forward or left. Often used in association with Halloween, vampires, and Batman. Google’s bat was previously purplish in color, bearing two fangs. Samsung’s bat was previously brown, and Facebook’s gray.

Image Variants

Bat 3D

3D

Bat Color

Color

Bat Flat

Flat

Bat High Contrast

High Contrast

Version Information

Emoji Version:3.0
Unicode Version:9.0

Keywords

batvampire

Shortcodes

PlatformShortcodeAction
Emojipedia:bat:
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Discord:bat:

Additional Information

Category:Supplemental Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:

A black bat that enjoys the dark, shown spreading its wings. Bat was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016. http://emojipedia.org/bat/

Nouns:
  • Immortal being which drinks the blood of mortals to survive.
  • A vampire is a supernatural creature, featuring prominently in horror fiction and folk tales, that lives after death through drinking the blood of the living.
  • A vampire is a mythical being who subsists by feeding on the life essence of living creatures.
  • (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
  • In ancient Greek mythology, Lamia was a beautiful queen of Libya who became a child-eating daemon.
  • Queen of Libya
  • Mythological creatures who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living
  • A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living.
  • Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.
  • Small flying mammal.
  • Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
  • A small, nocturnal, flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, which navigates by means of echolocation. It looks like a mouse with membranous wings extending from the forelimbs to the hind limbs or tail.