Microbe emoji 🦠
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F9A0
What 🦠 means
Microbe 🦠 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: amoeba, bacteria, science, virus.
Those words also drive emoji search: try amoeba or bacteria 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?
🦠 dates from Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🦠
To find 🦠 quickly, type microbe into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type microbe.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type microbe in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type microbe.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦠 as one code point, U+1F9A0: 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+1F9A0 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦠 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦠 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9A0"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9A0} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%A0 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 A0 |
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 microbe emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦠 "microbe" and links it with amoeba, bacteria, science, virus. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the bugs subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the microbe emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the microbe emoji?
To find 🦠 quickly, type microbe into the emoji search.