🐛 Bug
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Emoji Meaning
1
A green caterpillar, often used to illustrate topics about nature and plant life.
2
Called either “caterpillar” or “insect,” this emoji shows a green caterpillar (sometimes resembling a centipede). On some platforms it looks cute and cartoonish; on others, it can appear a bit creepy.
This emoji is related in meaning to the butterfly emoji. It’s connected to nature, cartoons, and books, and often suggests the idea that it will soon become a beautiful butterfly — symbolizing a wonderful future and personal growth.
Also Known As
- 🐛 Caterpillar
- 🐛 Insect
Apple Name
- 🐛 Bug
Unicode Name
- 🐛 Bug
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🐛 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F41B
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%90%9B |
| Punycode | xn--jo8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 90 9B |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC1B |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f41b |
| CSS | \01F41B |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F41B} |
| Perl | \x{1F41B} |
| HTML hex | 🐛 |
| HTML dec | 🐛 |