U+1F9A0 "🦠" Microbe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1F9A0 "🦠" Microbe is a pictographic representation of a single-celled organism, typically depicted as a green, ovular shape with small hair-like cilia or flagella protruding from its surface, and often including a nucleus-like spot or internal dots to suggest cellular structure. Introduced in Unicode 11.0 in 2018, this emoji is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize bacteria, viruses, germs, or pathogens in general, making it particularly prevalent in health discussions, news about infectious diseases, and hygiene awareness messages. Its design allows it to convey both scientific concepts and abstract ideas about contagion, though its interpretation can vary from neutral biological reference to more negative connotations of illness or uncleanliness depending on context.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
🦠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
🦠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD83E 0xDDA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001F9A0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud83e\udda0 |
Unicode Properties