Bone emoji 🦴
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F9B4
What 🦴 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🦴 are bones, dog, skeleton, wishbone. They show what people use it for.
Search for bones or dog on your emoji keyboard and 🦴 is among the results.
You will find 🦴 among the body parts (18 emoji), part of people & body with 390 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 👀 👁️ 👅 👄.
Will 🦴 show on my friend's phone?
Emoji 11.0 brought 🦴 in 2018. Most phones show it now; only devices that have not been updated for years miss it.
How to type 🦴
Search for bone in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🦴.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type bone.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type bone in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type bone.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🦴 is one code point (U+1F9B4), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9B4 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦴 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦴 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9B4"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9B4} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%B4 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 B4 |
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 bone emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦴 "bone" and links it with bones, dog, skeleton, wishbone. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the body parts subgroup of people & body.
When was the bone emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the bone emoji?
Search for bone in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🦴.