🪲Beetle Emoji
Generally, the 🪲 emoji just means “beetle. ” It’s used to represent the insect itself or to add a lighthearted, slightly weird vibe to a conversation.
The 🪲 emoji represents a beetle.
- Unicode
- U+1FAB2
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :beetle:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🪲 Beetle emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Beetle emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the beetle as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Beetle emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :beetle:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FAB2.
How to type the 🪲 Beetle emoji
No picker to hand? The beetle can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
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
Beetle emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around 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 beetle and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🪲 means in other countries
Mostly neutral, sitting between a plain bug reference and the Volkswagen car nickname in casual chat.
Just a literal insect reference, with no stronger meaning attached to it.
Shorthand for the classic Volkswagen Beetle model, especially older ones.
Before you send it: Use it however fits — there’s no real risk of it landing wrong in any conversation.
What 🪲 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1FAB2, 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: Beetle
Code: U+1FAB2 · added 2020
Shortcode: :beetle:
Generally, the 🪲 emoji just means “beetle.
Unicode name: Lady Beetle
Code: U+1F41E · added 2010
Shortcode: :ladybug:
Generally, the 🐞 emoji means good luck or something cute and charming.
Where the 🪲 Beetle emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FAB2 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.
Beetle was approved as U+1FAB2 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.