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🐝Honeybee Emoji
Unicode added 🐝 honeybee in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Animals & Nature → Bugs. Its codepoint is U+1F41D, and it is tagged animal, bee and bumblebee.
What 🐝 honeybee means
Insects here are used less for entomology than for feelings and jokes. 🐛 is a software defect far more often than a caterpillar, 🦋 stands for transformation or nervous butterflies, 🐝 signals busyness or a fandom, and 🕷️🕸️ decorate Halloween. 🦠 microbe shipped in Emoji 11.0, two years before the pandemic that made it a daily character.
Unicode tags this one animal, bee and bumblebee and files it under Animals & Nature → Bugs.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F41D | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🐝 | |
| HTML decimal | 🐝 | |
| CSS | \1F41D | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F41D} | |
| Python | \U0001F41D | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC1D | |
| Rust | \u{1f41d} | |
| Swift | \u{1F41D} | |
| PHP | \u{1F41D} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%90%9D | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 9D | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC1D | |
| Base64 | 8J+QnQ== | |
| Decimal | 128029 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🐝
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “honeybee”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “animal”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f41dand 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 🐝 honeybee emoji mean?+
🐝 is the honeybee emoji, tagged animal, bee and bumblebee. Insects here are used less for entomology than for feelings and jokes. 🐛 is a software defect far more often than a caterpillar, 🦋 stands for transformation or nervous butterflies, 🐝 signals busyness or a fandom, and 🕷️🕸️ decorate Halloween. 🦠 microbe shipped in Emoji 11.0, two years before the pandemic that made it a daily character.
What is the Unicode code for 🐝?+
honeybee is U+1F41D. In HTML that is 🐝, in CSS \1F41D, and in JavaScript \u{1F41D}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🐝 emoji added?+
honeybee got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Bugs in Animals & Nature.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🐝 honeybee.