Honeybee Emoji

Animals

A cartoonish, bright yellow and black striped honeybee depicted in profile, usually facing left with a single translucent wing visible and a stinger poking out from its abdomen.

Usage Context

Used to talk about nature, gardening, or the production of honey. It is frequently employed in slang to represent being busy as a bee, or to signal excitement about spring. It is often paired with 🍯 when discussing sweets or 🌻 when talking about flowers and pollination.

History

The honeybee was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0. It draws inspiration from early Japanese cellular phone icons that used simple insect motifs to represent seasonal changes and the natural world.

Details

Glyph

🐝

Unicode

U+1F41D

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f41d:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC1D;

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

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