The ant emoji is the tiny titan of the insect world: three segments, six legs, and big “I’m late for the colony” energy. It pops up when you’re talking teamwork, persistence, or that unstoppable vibe of 1,000 roommates showing up to your picnic uninvited. People also fling it around to mean “I’m antsy,” to roast minor annoyances, or to joke about being small but mighty—Ant-Man fan cams included.
Online, a row of these becomes an instant swarm to raid a comment section, meme-style. Finance chatter, especially in Korea, uses it to represent retail investors (“ants”) banding together. Pair it with cookie or sugar emojis to dramatize a kitchen invasion, or drop one next to a shoe for cartoon-level slapstick. It works sarcastically too: send one tiny ant when someone wants massive help, or a marching parade when the group chat is mobilizing.
On Apple devices, the ant looks realistic and side-facing: a sleek black body with glossy shading, clear head–thorax–abdomen segmentation, two forward-curving antennae, and six spindly legs mid-step, like it’s hustling somewhere important. No cartoon eyes, no smile—just a crisp, slightly 3D silhouette that screams “busy.” You’ll recognize the minimalist shine on the exoskeleton and the clean, left-leaning profile that makes it perfect for forming little marching lines across your messages.
Definition
An ant is a six legged insect that lives with many other ants (the ant colony). Each ant in a colony has a particular role to play to help the colony thrive: worker (creating the colony and gathering food), soldier (protecting the colony and ants), queen (laying eggs to grow the colony). This emoji is known for its teamwork and love for picnics and sugar.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
226 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
:ant:
Keywords
Ant, Queen, Insect, Team
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
ANT
Symbol Information
U+1F41C proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-1DA
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[アリ]
KDDI
#253 あり 「ari」 U+E4DD SJIS-F6B6 JIS-7638
Softbank
[アリ]
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)
1f41c
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F41C
Decimal Code Point(s)
128028
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x9C
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 90 9C
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 220 234
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC1C
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc1c
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56348
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F41C
UTF-32 Hex
01F41C
UTF-32 Dec
128028
Python Src
u"\U0001F41C"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x90\x9c"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC1C"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
