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🐞Lady Beetle Emoji
Tagged animal, beetle and garden, 🐞 lady beetle sits in Unicode's Bugs group inside Animals & Nature. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F41E.
What 🐞 lady beetle 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, beetle and garden 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+1F41E | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🐞 | |
| HTML decimal | 🐞 | |
| CSS | \1F41E | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F41E} | |
| Python | \U0001F41E | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC1E | |
| Rust | \u{1f41e} | |
| Swift | \u{1F41E} | |
| PHP | \u{1F41E} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%90%9E | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 9E | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC1E | |
| Base64 | 8J+Qng== | |
| Decimal | 128030 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🐞
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “lady beetle”. - 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 type1f41eand 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 🐞 lady beetle emoji mean?+
🐞 is the lady beetle emoji, tagged animal, beetle and garden. 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 🐞?+
lady beetle is U+1F41E. In HTML that is 🐞, in CSS \1F41E, and in JavaScript \u{1F41E}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🐞 emoji added?+
lady beetle 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 🐞 lady beetle.