Animals & Nature · Emoji 0.7
🕸️Spider Web Emoji
Generally, the 🕸️ emoji means feeling trapped, caught, or like something is complicated. People often use it to express frustration or a sense of being surrounded by problems.
The 🕸️ emoji shows a spider web.
- Unicode
- U+1F578 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :spider_
web: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🕸️ Spider Web emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 2.
02 — Platforms
Spider Web emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F578. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 8.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Spider Web emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :spider_web:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F578.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🕸️ Spider Web emoji
No picker to hand? The spider web can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Spider Web emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 8. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →06 — Combinations
Spider Web emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around spider web for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🕸️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Around the world
What 🕸️ means in other countries
Almost always used for feeling trapped or for Halloween decor, with the same reading across most cultures.
‘Caught in a web’ describes feeling stuck in a complicated situation.
Standard seasonal decoration reference around Halloween, purely aesthetic.
Before you send it: Use it for feeling overwhelmed or for autumn and Halloween posts; no cultural caution needed.
09 — Apps
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.
11 — Difference
🕸️ vs 🕷️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Spider Web
Code: U+1F578 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :spider_web:
Generally, the 🕸️ emoji means feeling trapped, caught, or like something is complicated.
Unicode name: Spider
Code: U+1F577 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :spider:
Generally, the spider emoji just means a spider.
12 — History
Where the 🕸️ Spider Web emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F578 U+FE0F 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 Web was approved as U+1F578 U+FE0F 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.
13 — FAQ