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🐛 Bug Emoji

A bug, or insect, generally depicted as a caterpillar, which becomes a . Shown in full profile facing left, inching up on the back of its green, segmented, and textured body. Often featuring black stripes or yellow dots and tentacles on its head.

May be used to represent various insects, worms, and related animals. May also be used for metaphorical senses of bug.

Twitter’s bug is purple. Apple’s bug is hairy with a red head and legs and black stripes on its body. Facebook’s bug also has a yellowish-orange head. and bugs previously resembled an orange centipede or millipede, and had a cartoon-styled face with a purple nose.

Emoji	🐛
Unicode Name	Bug
Apple Name	Bug
Also Known As	Caterpillar, Insect
Codepoints	U+1F41B

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Language	Name
Bengali	কষদর কট
Danish	larve
German	raupe
English	bug
Spanish	insecto
French	chenille
Hindi	इलल
Italian	insetto
Japanese	毛虫
Korean	송충이
Marathi	अळ
Malay	ulat
Dutch	insect
Norwegian	insekt
Portuguese	inseto
Swedish	tusenfoting
Tamil	மடடப பசச
Telugu	నలల
Chinese	毛毛虫