🕷Spider Emoji
Generally, the spider emoji just means a spider. It's often used to express something is complicated or tricky, like a spider’s web.
The 🕷 emoji represents a spider.
- Unicode
- U+1F577
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :spider:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🕷 Spider emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Spider emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the spider as 8 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
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.
Spider 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 :spider:.
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+1F577.
How to type the 🕷 Spider emoji
No picker to hand? The spider can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Spider emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the spider as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Spider emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around spider 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🕷 means in other countries
Reads as fear or creepiness in most casual chat, while carrying real folklore weight in West African traditions.
Shorthand for fear, Halloween costumes, or casual Spider-Man references.
Anansi the spider is a major trickster figure in Akan and diaspora folklore.
Before you send it: Safe for horror-themed or Halloween messages; know it carries deeper meaning in Anansi storytelling contexts.
What 🕷 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F577, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🕷 vs 🕸 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Spider
Code: U+1F577 · added 2014
Shortcode: :spider:
Generally, the spider emoji just means a spider.
Unicode name: Spider Web
Code: U+1F578 · added 2014
Shortcode: :spider_web:
Generally, the 🕸 emoji means feeling trapped, caught, or like something is complicated.
Where the 🕷 Spider emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F577 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.
Spider was approved as U+1F577 and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🕷 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.