U+1FAB2 · emoji since 2020
The beetle is a hard-shelled insect, often a glossy blue. It means bugs, gardens, and the tiny armored life underfoot.
It headlines nature finds and entomology, the most numerous kind of creature crawling across the planet.
In texting, 🪲 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🪲 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Beetle emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the beetle emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🪲 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.