Lady beetle Emoji

Animals

A small, round, bright red insect featuring a black head and black spots on its wing covers. It captures the look of a common ladybug, often associated with gardens and good luck.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent springtime, gardening, or general nature themes. Because of its reputation as a lucky charm in folklore, it frequently appears in messages wishing someone well or celebrating a positive turn of events, often alongside the 🍀 or 🌸 emojis.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0, the lady beetle has been a staple of nature-themed iconography since the early days of graphical chat interfaces, where it served as a friendly and recognizable way to denote insects without the negative connotations of more pest-like bugs.

Details

Glyph

🐞

Unicode

U+1F41E

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f41e:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC1E;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-bug

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

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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