cricket bat
Activities
What it means when sent
A cricket bat and ball. The official name is “cricket game” precisely to keep it apart from the insect, and while it is the national sport in India, Pakistan, Australia and England, American readers think of the insect first.
Official name vs. real use
The name Unicode gave it and the way people use it are not the same. If you searched your way here, the second one is usually what you were after.
- Official name
- cricket game
- What people call it
- cricket bat
- Code point
- U+1F3CF
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
Sport and game emoji mostly travel as metaphors. 🎯 is not a dartboard but “nailed it”, and 🎲 is leaving it to chance.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere — it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
- Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (🙃, 😅).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare 👍 reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking — they are usually stripped from the result.
- Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.
Common questions
Q. What does 🏏 mean?
A cricket bat and ball. The official name is “cricket game” precisely to keep it apart from the insect, and while it is the national sport in India, Pakistan, Australia and England, American readers think of the insect first.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it cricket game, code point U+1F3CF. It sits under Activities.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes — though every vendor draws it slightly differently.