Microbe Emoji 🦠
Emoji Meaning
A microbe or a germ. It is generally depicted as a one cell microorganism with legs and antennae. Its colour, shape and position vary depending on a platform. In 2020 people started to use this emoji to talk about coronavirus and COVID-19.
The symbol “Microbe” is included in the “Animal symbols” subblock of the “Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 11.0 in 2018. In 2018, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 11.0 and added to the “Bug” subcategory of the “Animals & Nature” category.
Synonyms
COVID-19, coronavirus, cell, germ, microorganism, virus.
🦠 Microbe Emoji Images
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| Unicode Name | Microbe |
| Unicode Number | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Subblock | Animal symbols |
| Unicode Version | 11.0 (2018) |
| Emoji Version | 11.0 (2018) |
| Emoji Category | Animals & Nature |
| Emoji Subcategory | Bug |
| Emoji Name | Microbe |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F9A0 |
| Simple case change | 1F9A0 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F A6 A0 | 240 159 166 160 | 4036994720 | 11110000 10011111 10100110 10100000 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3E DD A0 | 216 62 221 160 | 3627998624 | 11011000 00111110 11011101 10100000 |
| UTF-16LE | 3E D8 A0 DD | 62 216 160 221 | 1054384349 | 00111110 11011000 10100000 11011101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F9 A0 | 0 1 249 160 | 129440 | 00000000 00000001 11111001 10100000 |
| UTF-32LE | A0 F9 01 00 | 160 249 1 0 | 2700673280 | 10100000 11111001 00000001 00000000 |
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