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Microbe

1F9A0 · U+1F9A0 · 🦠

What it means

The Microbe emoji 🦠 is used around ideas like amoeba, bacteria, microbe, science and virus.

Emoji render in the viewer’s own font, so the exact drawing differs between Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft — the sense above is what stays constant.

Keywords

Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.

amoebabacteriamicrobesciencevirus

Details

Hexa1F9A0
CodepointsU+1F9A0
HTML (hex)🦠
HTML (decimal)🦠
CLDR short namemicrobe
Emoji versionEmoji 11.0 · 2018 →
Qualificationfully-qualified
CategoryAnimals & Nature
Subcategoryanimal-bug

Timeline

  1. Emoji 11.0 · 2018Microbe entered the standard as U+1F9A0, establishing the codepoint still used today.
  2. TodayRendered across major platforms. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each draw it in their own style while preserving the same underlying character.

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