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🕸️Spider Web Emoji
Tagged spider, web, 🕸️ spider web sits in Unicode's Bugs group inside Animals & Nature. It was introduced in Unicode 7.0 (2014) at U+1F578 U+FE0F.
What 🕸️ spider web 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 spider, web and files it under Animals & Nature → Bugs.
Copy variants
spider web carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🕸️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🕸U+1F578spider web
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F578 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🕸️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🕸️ | |
| CSS | \1F578\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F578}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F578\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD78\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f578}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F578}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F578}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%95%B8%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 95 B8 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD78 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+VuO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128376 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
- spider
- web
How to type 🕸️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “spider web”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “spider”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f578and 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 🕸️ spider web emoji mean?+
🕸️ is the spider web emoji, tagged spider, web. 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 🕸️?+
spider web is U+1F578 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🕸️, in CSS \1F578\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F578}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🕸️ emoji added?+
spider web got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). 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 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🕸️ spider web.