Bug

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Shortcode
:bug:
Unicode
U+1F41B
HTML
🐛
CSS
\1F41B
JavaScript
"\u{1F41B}"
URL
%F0%9F%90%9B

animalgardeninsect

What ๐Ÿ› means

A green caterpillar-like bug. In tech chat, it means a software bug.

Developers put ๐Ÿ› in commit messages, issue titles and chat to flag a defect or a fix. Outside tech it means insects, gardens and caterpillars, and people use it for a "stomach bug" too.

Facts

Bug ๐Ÿ› is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal bug. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :bug:. People also look for it with words like โ€œanimalโ€, โ€œgardenโ€, or โ€œinsectโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. bug, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. bug, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. bug, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. bug, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

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

animals & nature ยท Unicode 6.0