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🕷️Spider Emoji
Unicode added 🕷️ spider in Unicode 7.0 (2014), filed under Animals & Nature → Bugs. Its codepoint is U+1F577 U+FE0F, and it is tagged animal, insect.
What 🕷️ spider 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, insect and files it under Animals & Nature → Bugs.
Copy variants
spider 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+1F577spider
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F577 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🕷️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🕷️ | |
| CSS | \1F577\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F577}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F577\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD77\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f577}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F577}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F577}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%95%B7%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 95 B7 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD77 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Vt++4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128375 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🕷️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “spider”. - 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 type1f577and 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 emoji mean?+
🕷️ is the spider emoji, tagged animal, insect. 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 is U+1F577 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🕷️, in CSS \1F577\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F577}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🕷️ emoji added?+
spider 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.