Bug Emoji

Animals

A cartoonish, segmented caterpillar or worm shown in profile, typically colored in shades of brown or green with small legs and rounded segments. It captures the look of a larval stage insect crawling along the ground.

Usage Context

Used to describe actual garden pests, represent nature and growth, or jokingly refer to 'bugs' in computer software and code. It is often paired with the 🐞 lady beetle or the 🦋 butterfly to track the lifecycle of insects.

History

Included in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the bug emoji gained popularity alongside the rise of digital slang, where users frequently use it to complain about glitches or errors in video games and applications, a nod to the legendary 1947 'computer bug' incident at Harvard.

Details

Glyph

🐛

Unicode

U+1F41B

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f41b:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC1B;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-bug

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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