Bug
The bug emoji — Unicode name “bug” — belongs to the Animals & Nature group on EmojiAll. You will most often meet it in messages about insect and bug. Scored 56 out of 100, it falls in the Neutral range.
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1. Bug emoji attributes
- Symbol
- 🐛
- Name
- Bug
- English name
- bug
- Unicode code point
- U+1F41B
- HTML entity
- 🐛
- Decimal
- 🐛
- Category
- Animals & Nature›Insects
- Keywords
- insect, bug
- Download image
- SizeBackground512 × 512 PNG · transparent background
2. Bug emoji meaning
The bug emoji sits in the Insects subgroup — one of 17 symbols grouped there under Animals & Nature. Its meaning centers on insect and bug, and that is what makes it usable across languages. It is a low-risk choice: the meaning is specific enough that readers rarely misread it.
In everyday chat, the bug (🐛) usually appears alongside words about insect and bug. A few words of text make the intent clearer than the symbol on its own.
3. Bug emoji sentiment
Scored 56 out of 100, this emoji sits in the Neutral range. It works as a visual label for the thing it depicts.
A higher score means a more positive feeling; scores near 50 are neutral.
4. Bug emoji examples
- 1Weekend plans: the outdoors 🐛
- 2Feeding the birds this morning 🐛
- 3Look what I saw on the walk 🐛
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