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Beyond coding, people toss it around for everyday ick—like spotting something gross in the kitchen—or when they’re “bugging out” over drama.

It also nods to surveillance (“are we bugged?”) and to catching “the travel/flu bug.”

In dev-speak, that wiggly green caterpillar gets dropped when code goes off the rails: it’s shorthand for “there’s a software issue here,” often paired with 🔧, 🧪, or the immortal meme line, “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” Language loves a multitasker.

Definition

Red face and a fat green body up on all 10s. Unicode note: Bug. This Emoji may point to a centipede or hairy caterpillar. It typically indicates something "distasteful".

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
2. In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	325 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture	Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:bug:
Keywords	Bug, Insect, Virus, Error
Previous Names:	Green Centipede

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range	1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory	Animal Symbols

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory	Animal Symbols
Names & Annotations	BUG Temporary Notes: This Emoji may point to a centipede or hairy catepillar. It typically indicates something "distasteful".
Symbol Information	U+1F41B proposed
Proposal Identifier	e-1CB

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	[ゲジゲジ]
KDDI	#716 げじげじ 「gejigeji」 U+EB1E SJIS-F3DF JIS-7A61
Softbank	#134 #old460 毛虫 U+E525 SJIS-FBC5

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version	iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	🐛
UTF-8 Character Count	1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	🐛
Decimal HTML Entity	🐛
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	🐛
Hex Code Point(s)	1f41b
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F41B
Decimal Code Point(s)	128027
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x9B
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 90 9B
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 220 233
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83D 0xDC1B
UTF-16 Hex	d83ddc1b
UTF-16 Dec	55357 56347
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F41B
UTF-32 Hex	01F41B
UTF-32 Dec	128027
Python Src	u"\U0001F41B"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x90\x9b"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83D\uDC1B"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)