spider
Nature and animals
What it means when sent
The spider, attached to creepiness and Halloween, though some traditions welcome one indoors as a guest.
- Code point
- U+1F577 U+FE0F
- Code points
- 2
2 code points joined together. That is why some devices need several backspaces to delete it, and why a character counter may score it as 2.
It needs a trailing U+FE0F to render in colour. Without it the glyph falls back to black and white โ that is what gets lost when the emoji is copied and pasted.
Animals carry different meanings by culture. ๐ท is cute in one place and an insult in another; ๐ฆ sits between clever and sly.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere โ it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
- Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (๐, ๐ ).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare ๐ reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking โ they are usually stripped from the result.
- Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.
Common questions
Q. What does ๐ท๏ธ mean?
The spider, attached to creepiness and Halloween, though some traditions welcome one indoors as a guest.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it spider, code point U+1F577 U+FE0F. It sits under Nature and animals.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
Only if the trailing U+FE0F comes along. Without it the glyph falls back to black and white.