Microbe
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- Shortcode
:microbe:- Unicode
U+1F9A0- HTML
🦠- CSS
\1F9A0- JavaScript
"\u{1F9A0}"- URL
%F0%9F%A6%A0
What ๐ฆ means
A green microbe, standing for germs, viruses and bacteria. It means illness, contagion, or science.
People send it when they are sick or when someone nearby is coughing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ๐ฆ became the common sign for the virus, and it still marks health news and hygiene tips.
Facts
Microbe ๐ฆ is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal bug. 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 :microbe:. People also look for it with words like โamoebaโ, โbacteriaโ, โscienceโ, or โvirusโ.
Timeline
- 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2018
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.