Worm emoji 🪱
Emoji 13.0 (2020) · U+1FAB1
What 🪱 means
Worm 🪱 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, annelid, earthworm, parasite.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or annelid 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 13.0 (2020). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🪱
To find 🪱 quickly, type worm into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type worm.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type worm in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type worm.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🪱 as one code point, U+1FAB1: 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+1FAB1 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🪱 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🪱 | |
| CSS | content: "\1FAB1"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAB1} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%AA%B1 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA B1 |
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 worm emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🪱 "worm" and links it with animal, annelid, earthworm, parasite. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the bugs subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the worm emoji added?
In Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. Phones updated since about 2021 show it.
How do I type the worm emoji?
To find 🪱 quickly, type worm into the emoji search.