Bone

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Shortcode
:bone:
Unicode
U+1F9B4
HTML
🦴
CSS
\1F9B4
JavaScript
"\u{1F9B4}"
URL
%F0%9F%A6%B4

bonesdogskeletonwishbone

What ๐Ÿฆด means

A cartoon bone. ๐Ÿฆด stands for dog treats, skeletons and bones in general.

Dog owners use it with ๐Ÿถ for treats and good behavior. It also fits Halloween, fossils, broken bones and the phrase "a bone to pick."

"Bone" is also a slang verb for sex, so it can appear as innuendo.

Facts

Bone ๐Ÿฆด is an emoji in the people and body category, under body parts. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :bone:. People also look for it with words like โ€œbonesโ€, โ€œdogโ€, โ€œskeletonโ€, or โ€œwishboneโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. bone, Google (Noto) design from 20182018
  2. bone, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  3. bone, Google (Noto) design from 20252025

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. bone, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body ยท Emoji 11.0