🪱Worm Emoji
Generally, it means something is disgusting or gross. People use it to show they find something unpleasant.
The 🪱 emoji represents a worm.
- Unicode
- U+1FAB1
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :worm:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🪱 Worm emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Worm emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FAB1 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your worm looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Worm emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :worm:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FAB1.
How to type the 🪱 Worm emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Worm emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the worm 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
Worm emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around worm 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
Mostly a low-key insult for weakness in English slang, but otherwise just a plain garden creature.
Calling someone a ‘worm’ implies they’re spineless or untrustworthy.
Purely literal — composting, fishing bait, or general soil and garden health.
Before you send it: Keep it to nature talk unless you intend a jab; the insect insult reads fast in English.
What 🪱 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the worm lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🪱 Worm emoji came from
It arrived with the 13.0 release of the standard, which dates the worm to 2020.
Same character every time — U+1FAB1 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.
Worm was approved as U+1FAB1 and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.