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🦠 Microbe Emoji
A microbe, as a bacterium grown in a or observed under a . Generally depicted as a squiggly, single-celled microorganism with prominent . Color, shape, and position vary across platforms. Commonly used to represent bacteria, viruses, and germs and disease more generally.
In 2020, this emoji became in reference to .
Apple's version of this emoji most closely represents a virus, while others from Samsung, Microsoft and Twitter appear as bright green bacteria. Other versions of this emoji also appear mainly as bacteria: Facebook's is indigo, and WhatsApp’s purple. Google’s design five microbes in different, bright colors.
| Emoji | 🦠 |
| Unicode Name | Microbe |
| Apple Name | Microbe |
| Also Known As | Cell, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Germ, Microorganism, Virus |
| Codepoints | U+1F9A0 |
Similar emoji
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | জবণ |
| Danish | mikrobe |
| German | mikrobe |
| English | microbe |
| Spanish | microbio |
| French | microbe |
| Hindi | रगण |
| Italian | microbo |
| Japanese | 微生物 |
| Korean | 미생물 |
| Marathi | मयकरब |
| Malay | mikrob |
| Dutch | microbe |
| Norwegian | mikrobe |
| Portuguese | micróbio |
| Swedish | mikrob |
| Tamil | நணணயர |
| Telugu | సకషమకరమ |
| Chinese | 细菌 |
