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๐Ÿฆ 

Microbe emoji

Type :microbe: ยท Animals & nature

Unicode name Microbe ยท added in Emoji 11.0, 2018

What ๐Ÿฆ  means

A microbe. Germs, viruses, and science. It gained several years of very heavy use after 2020.

How to type ๐Ÿฆ  without a picker

With Emoji Anywhere installed, type :micr in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick ๐Ÿฆ  from the suggestion that appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.

Shortcodes

:microbe:

Search terms

Also found by searching amoeba, bacteria, science, virus.

๐Ÿฆ  in HTML, CSS and code

Microbe is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.

Unicode
U+1F9A0
HTML
🦠
JavaScript
'\u{1F9A0}'
CSS content
"\1F9A0"
Python
'\U0001F9A0'
URL-encoded
%F0%9F%A6%A0

Related emojis

All animals & nature shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .

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:micr
๐Ÿฆ  :microbe:
Enter

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๐Ÿฆ 
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