🪳️ Cockroach emoji

The cockroach emoji represents these resilient insects, often symbolizing survival, persistence, or unwanted presence. This emoji is used in discussions about pest control, urban life, resilience, or when expressing disgust or persistence.

Cockroaches are notorious for their survival abilities and adaptability, making them symbols of persistence and resilience. However, they are often associated with uncleanliness and are generally unwelcome in human spaces.

Used in contexts about urban life, pest issues, or metaphorically to represent something persistent or hard to eliminate, often with negative connotations.

Could also be called Urban pest, resilient insect, unwanted bug or hardy creature emoji.

Other meanings

Pest control, urban pests, resilience, persistence, unwanted presence, survival, adaptability

Example Usage

Ugh, found a cockroach 🪳 in the kitchen again

Related emoji

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• 🦋️ Butterfly
• 🐛️ Bug
• 🐜️ Ant
• 🐝️ Honeybee

Visual description

A brown cockroach shown from above, displaying the characteristic oval body shape, long antennae, and six legs typical of these urban insects.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.