Bug emoji 🐛
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F41B
What 🐛 means
Bug 🐛 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, garden, insect.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or garden on your phone to find 🐛.
On the emoji keyboard, 🐛 sits with the bugs (17 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🐜 🐝 🪲 🐞.
Will 🐛 show on my friend's phone?
🐛 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 🐛
To find 🐛 quickly, type bug into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type bug.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type bug in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type bug.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🐛 as one code point, U+1F41B: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F41B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐛 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐛 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F41B"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F41B} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%9B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 9B |
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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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the bug emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐛 "bug" 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 bug 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 bug emoji?
To find 🐛 quickly, type bug into the emoji search.