Spider Web Emoji
A radial web with no spider on it, used for Halloween and for neglect.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Spider Web emoji mean?
A radial web with no spider on it, used for Halloween and for neglect.
How to use 🕸️ naturally
Halloween decoration, and saying that something has been left untouched for months.
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 Web 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
A radial web drawn as lines alone, with no spider anywhere on it. It arrived from the same Webdings absorption as the spider and shares its need for a variation selector.
- Today
How its use evolved
Halloween decoration, and saying that something has been left untouched for months.
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 decoration, and saying that something has been left untouched for months. It lands as spider web emoji or cobweb 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 web emoji
What does 🕸️ mean in a text message?
A radial web with no spider on it, used for Halloween and for neglect.
Is 🕸️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are spider web emoji, cobweb emoji, halloween emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🕸️ look different on another device?
U+1F578 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 web 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 web 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+1F578 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 | \1F578 \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F578}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%95%B8%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F578 U+FE0F
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- spider web emojicobweb emojihalloween emoji
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