🪲

Beetle Emoji 🪲

Beetles account for roughly one in four animal species ever described, and this emoji is Unicode's general-purpose one, not tied to any single species. It covers stag beetles, scarabs, and June bugs alike, and gets borrowed loosely for anyone thick-skinned enough to shrug off criticism.

What 🪲 means

A six-legged bug with a glossy green exterior. It is described with a small head, two eyes, a pair of antennae, and a semi-rounded body layered with wings. It's shown with a brown body on some platforms.

The 🪲 Beetle emoji represents beetles, not THE beetles, just beetles (without the A). It signifies nature, insects, and the physical characteristics of a beetle/bug such as crawlability, flyability, and maybe even stingability. 🪲 also works in non-obvious spheres.

How and when to use it

Talking first about the non-obvious use-case, crawling. We know that 🪲 crawl in real life, but guess what, they do that on search engines too. Crawling, which in this case, means checking and scanning through the credibility of a particular page. 🪲 works in such a context too.
For example, "We need to establish the authenticity before the attractive quotient 🪲" or "You gotta be yourself if you want to survive the real world, coz when there are two of the same kind, one cancels 🪲".
Lovebugs exist, however not necessarily the same way in spoken English. That phrase could mean that 🪲 carries love in its heart. For instance, "Look who's bitten by a love bug 🪲" (it means you're in love).
🪲 could also represent a "beetlebrain". Offensive, yes. But, we don't mind making anything apart from humans offensive. Like, "And you expected that out of his beetlebrain? 🪲 Lol you're funny as hell".
If you're referring to bugs on a general note, you can use 🪲. This applies to any insect that can fly. Given they're half as pretty.

Other Names

🪲 Beetles
🪲 Green Beetle
🪲 Green Bug
🪲 Insect
🪲 Crawling
🪲 Creepy Crawlies

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-bug
Codepoints: U+1FAB2
Emoji version: Emoji 13.0
Shortcodes: :beetle:
Keywords: animal, beetle, bug, insect

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.