Ant emoji 🐜
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F41C
What 🐜 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Ant 🐜 is tagged with these keywords: animal, garden, insect.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing animal or garden in the emoji search brings up 🐜.
Ant 🐜 is one of 17 emoji in the bugs subgroup of animals & nature (161 emoji), next to 🐝 🪲 🐞 🦗.
Will 🐜 show on my friend's phone?
🐜 is one of the original emoji: it comes from the Japanese phone sets and is listed in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Every phone, computer and app shows it.
How to type 🐜
Any emoji picker finds 🐜 when you search for ant.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type ant.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type ant in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type ant.
Codes for developers
Ant 🐜 is a single code point, U+1F41C. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F41C | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐜 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐜 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F41C"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F41C} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%9C | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 9C |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🐜 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the ant emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐜 "ant" and links it with animal, garden, insect. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the bugs subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the ant emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the ant emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🐜 when you search for ant.