🦠 Microbe
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Emoji Meaning
1
A squiggly, microscopic organism seen through a microscope. It’s usually shown in green, though color and orientation can vary by platform. Commonly used to represent diseases, infections, or germs.
2
This depicts a bacterium or microbe — a single-celled, bluish organism with cilia instead of limbs. How it appears can vary depending on your device and the app displaying the emoji.
Germs are everywhere — some beneficial, some harmful. This emoji often appears in scientific correspondence, but it can also be used mockingly to describe someone seen as petty or insignificant.
Also Known As
- 🦠 Cell
- 🦠 Coronavirus
- 🦠 COVID-19
- 🦠 Germ
- 🦠 Microorganism
- 🦠 Virus
Apple Name
- 🦠 Microbe
Unicode Name
- 🦠 Microbe
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🦠 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9A0
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%A0 |
| Punycode | xn--wt9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 A0 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDA0 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9a0 |
| CSS | \01F9A0 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9A0} |
| Perl | \x{1F9A0} |
| HTML hex | 🦠 |
| HTML dec | 🦠 |