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🦠Microbe Emoji
🦠 is the microbe emoji, U+1F9A0, one of 16 in the Bugs set. It arrived with Emoji 11.0 (2018) and is commonly used for amoeba, bacteria and science.
What 🦠 microbe 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 amoeba, bacteria and science 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+1F9A0 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🦠 | |
| HTML decimal | 🦠 | |
| CSS | \1F9A0 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9A0} | |
| Python | \U0001F9A0 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDA0 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9a0} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9A0} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9A0} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A6%A0 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 A0 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDA0 | |
| Base64 | 8J+moA== | |
| Decimal | 129440 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
- amoeba
- bacteria
- science
- virus
How to type 🦠
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “microbe”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “amoeba”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9a0and 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 🦠 microbe emoji mean?+
🦠 is the microbe emoji, tagged amoeba, bacteria and science. 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 🦠?+
microbe is U+1F9A0. In HTML that is 🦠, in CSS \1F9A0, and in JavaScript \u{1F9A0}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🦠 emoji added?+
microbe 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 Bugs in Animals & Nature.
Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🦠 microbe.