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Meaning & usage
What does the Spider emoji mean?
A spider drawn from above with its legs spread evenly.
How to use 🕷️ naturally
Halloween, genuine arachnophobia, and the corner of the room nobody wants to deal with.
Animal emoji can be literal, affectionate or symbolic. People often use them for pets and wildlife, but also for personality traits, visual themes and private nicknames.
From standard to slang
The history of 🕷️
- 2014
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Spider was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. Another retrospective label, covering characters recognised as emoji in 2014.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Eight legs spread evenly around a small body, seen from above. It came into Unicode from the Webdings and Wingdings sets rather than from a phone carrier, which is why it needs a variation selector to render in colour.
- Today
How its use evolved
Halloween, genuine arachnophobia, and the corner of the room nobody wants to deal with.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🕷️ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
When to use it
Using 🕷️ clearly
Halloween, genuine arachnophobia, and the corner of the room nobody wants to deal with. It lands as spider emoji or halloween emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the spider emoji
What does 🕷️ mean in a text message?
A spider drawn from above with its legs spread evenly.
Is 🕷️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are spider emoji, halloween emoji, scary emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🕷️ look different on another device?
U+1F577 U+FE0F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the spider emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🕷️ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the spider emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🕷️ as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🕷️ in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F577 U+FE0F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🕷️ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🕷️ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F577 \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F577}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%95%B7%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F577 U+FE0F
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- spider emojihalloween emojiscary emoji
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