Microbe Emoji 🦠

This emoji shows a bacteria grown in a Petri dish or seen under a microscope. Generally depicted as a one-celled microrganism with prominent cilia. It is commonly used as a symbol for viruses, germs, and bacteria.

🦠 Microbe is a fully-qualified emoji encoded in Unicode 11.0 , and included in Emoji 11.0 in 2018.

This emoji is part of the Animals & Nature and is grouped with other Animal Bug emojis. Part of the Unicode Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block.

To find this emoji, you can use the following keywords:

  • amoeba
  • bacteria
  • microbe
  • science
  • virus
  • Copy and paste the Microbe emoji:

  • 🦠

Codes & Encoding for the Microbe Emoji

Click any code below to copy it to your clipboard.

  • CodepointU+1F9A0 ✓ Copied
  • HTML (decimal)🦠 ✓ Copied
  • HTML (hex)🦠 ✓ Copied
  • CSS\1F9A0 ✓ Copied
  • JavaScript\u{1F9A0} ✓ Copied
  • URL-encoded%F0%9F%A6%A0 ✓ Copied
  • Shortcode:microbe: ✓ Copied
  • Unicode block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs

How to Type the Microbe Emoji

  • iOS Use the emoji keyboard (globe icon → smiley)
  • Android Use Gboard's emoji keyboard, or type the emoji's name
  • Windows Win + . opens the emoji picker
  • macOS Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the character viewer
  • Linux Ctrl + Shift + e then codepoint, or use IBus picker
  • Web Paste the character or use an emoji-picker library
  • Slack Type :microbe: (autocompletes to the emoji)
  • Discord Type :microbe: (autocompletes to the emoji)

Microbe Emoji on Different Platforms

How to Use the Microbe Emoji

  • Scientists are studying the 🦠 that causes the flu.
  • Got a tiny 🦠 on my microscope slide.
  • Be careful with that 🦠 sample!

Related keywords

Browse emojis under closely-related themes:

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