🐝Honeybee Emoji
Generally, the 🐝 emoji means a honeybee. It's often used to express feelings of sweetness, hard work, or a busy lifestyle.
The 🐝 emoji is a honeybee.
- Unicode
- U+1F41D
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :bee:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐝 Honeybee emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
People also look for it as bee emoji, spring emoji, honey bee emoji.
Honeybee emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the honeybee has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Honeybee emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :bee:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F41D.
How to type the 🐝 Honeybee emoji
No picker to hand? The honeybee can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Honeybee emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the honeybee as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Honeybee emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around honeybee for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🐝, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐝 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🐝 means in other countries
Reads as busy, productive, and sweet almost everywhere, with fandom-specific meaning layered on top for some.
The ‘BeyHive’ fan base uses bee imagery as its entire group identity online.
‘Busy bee’ describes someone hard at work, always a compliment.
Before you send it: Safe for compliments about someone’s work ethic in any setting, formal or casual.
What 🐝 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the honeybee lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🐝 Honeybee emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F41D never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🐝 existed there as
KDDI au EB57.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Honeybee was approved as U+1F41D and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐝 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.