The bone emoji is the internet’s universal dog treat—perfect for celebrating a fetch champion, summoning the pups of PetTok, or begging for mercy via “throw me a bone.” It also works when you’re handing out the essentials only: a bare-bones summary, minimal budget, or just vibes. Drop it to signal you’ve got a “bone to pick,” or when that late-night hunger hits you down to the bone. Because the internet is the internet, it sometimes shows up as cheeky innuendo or gym-talk about strong bones and calcium power.
On social feeds, it leans seasonal and silly: spooky-season skeleton aesthetics, “Bad to the Bone” captions, and the great bone-in vs. boneless wings debate that will outlive us all. Nostalgia fans may pair it with Noodle the Pug references—bones day vs. no bones day—when the mood forecast demands it. It’s also a quick visual for archaeology/paleontology jokes, from “I found it” to “I’m dusting off the evidence.”
On Apple devices, the bone appears as a clean, off‑white, slightly glossy dog bone with rounded knobs at both ends, tilted on a subtle diagonal with soft shading that makes it look a bit 3D. No skulls, no crossbones—just a smooth, ivory cartoon bone you could spot instantly in a pet aisle or a Saturday-morning cartoon.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 389 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 12 - 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) | 1f9b4 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9B4 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129460 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0xB4 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A6 B4 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 246 264 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDB4 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddb4 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56756 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9B4 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9B4 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129460 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9B4" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa6\xb4" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDB4" |
