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 Microsoft

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-bug

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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