What 🪲 means
🪲 is the beetle emoji, filed under Animals & Nature in the animal-bug subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 13.0 (2020) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 13.0 (2020).
How it is encoded
🪲 is a single code point, U+1FAB2.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
Don't confuse it with
1Worth knowing
- 🪲 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🪲 look different on other phones?
Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.
How to type 🪲
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “beetle”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “beetle”.
Chat apps
:beetle:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🪲Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🪲
HTML hex
🪲
CSS content
content: "\1FAB2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AA%B2
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.