Lady Beetle

Unicode lists 🐞 Lady Beetle among the bugs in the Animals & Nature group. Typical contexts are animal, beetle, garden and insect. Unicode also files it under lady, ladybird, ladybug and nature, which shows how widely it is read.

You can drop 🐞 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Animals and Nature. Added in 2010 with Emoji 0.6, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1F41E.

• 🐞 on its own already flags the topic: animal.
• Fits messages about animal, beetle, garden and insect.
• Often seen near 🪲 Beetle, 🐝 Honeybee and 🦗 Cricket.

Across much of Europe the ladybird counts as a bringer of luck and is named after the Virgin Mary – its seven spots were linked to her seven sorrows. English ladybird has the same origin.

Country lore attaches to it: if one lands on your hand, you should not shake it off. In Turkish it is uğur böceği – simply “luck beetle”.

• 🐞🪲 – Lady Beetle and Beetle
• 🐞🪳 – Lady Beetle with Cockroach
• 🐞🕷️ – Lady Beetle plus Spider
• 🐞🦂 – Lady Beetle and Scorpion
• 🐞🐛 – Lady Beetle with Bug
• 🐞🕸️ – Lady Beetle plus Spider Web
• 🐞🐝 – Lady Beetle and Honeybee
• 🐞🦋 – Lady Beetle with Butterfly

Easy to mix up with 🪲 Beetle, 🐝 Honeybee or 🦗 Cricket. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.