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🦴Bone Emoji
🦴 is the bone emoji, U+1F9B4, one of 18 in the Body Parts set. It arrived with Emoji 11.0 (2018) and is commonly used for bones, dog and skeleton.
What 🦴 bone means
Anatomy used both literally and as slang. 👀 rarely means eyes - it means look at this, or I am watching. 💪 stands in for effort or a gym session. The 2019 release added 🦾, 🦿 and 🦻 as part of a deliberate accessibility push, and 🫀 anatomical heart and 🫁 lungs followed in 2020.
Unicode tags this one bones, dog and skeleton and files it under People & Body → Body Parts.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9B4 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🦴 | |
| HTML decimal | 🦴 | |
| CSS | \1F9B4 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9B4} | |
| Python | \U0001F9B4 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDB4 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9b4} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9B4} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9B4} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A6%B4 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 B4 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDB4 | |
| Base64 | 8J+mtA== | |
| Decimal | 129460 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
- bones
- dog
- skeleton
- wishbone
Appears in these collections
How to type 🦴
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “bone”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bones”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9b4and Enter. - HTML — paste
🦴.
How 🦴 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🦴Apple
- 🦴Segoe
- 🦴Noto
- 🦴System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🦴 bone emoji mean?+
🦴 is the bone emoji, tagged bones, dog and skeleton. Anatomy used both literally and as slang. 👀 rarely means eyes - it means look at this, or I am watching. 💪 stands in for effort or a gym session. The 2019 release added 🦾, 🦿 and 🦻 as part of a deliberate accessibility push, and 🫀 anatomical heart and 🫁 lungs followed in 2020.
What is the Unicode code for 🦴?+
bone is U+1F9B4. In HTML that is 🦴, in CSS \1F9B4, and in JavaScript \u{1F9B4}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🦴 emoji added?+
bone got its emoji presentation in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Body Parts in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🦴 bone.