🐞Lady Beetle Emoji
Generally, the 🐞 emoji means good luck or something cute and charming. People use it to express a positive sentiment or just to add a bit of whimsy to their messages.
The 🐞 emoji represents a ladybug, also known as a ladybird.
- Unicode
- U+1F41E
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :ladybug:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐞 Lady Beetle emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as ladybug emoji, beetle emoji.
Lady Beetle emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F41E. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Lady Beetle emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :ladybug:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F41E.
How to type the 🐞 Lady Beetle emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Lady Beetle emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Lady Beetle emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around lady beetle 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
Who sent the lady beetle and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🐞 means in other countries
A near-universal good-luck symbol, especially popular in children’s content and casual good-news messages.
Considered good luck, and killing one is traditionally seen as bad luck.
Common cute accent in messages about spring, small joys, or good news.
Before you send it: Use it freely for well-wishes or lighthearted messages; there’s no downside anywhere.
What 🐞 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🐞 vs 🪲 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Lady Beetle
Code: U+1F41E · added 2010
Shortcode: :ladybug:
Generally, the 🐞 emoji means good luck or something cute and charming.
Unicode name: Beetle
Code: U+1FAB2 · added 2020
Shortcode: :beetle:
Generally, the 🪲 emoji just means “beetle.
Where the 🐞 Lady Beetle 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+1F41E 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 EB58.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Lady Beetle was approved as U+1F41E 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.