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🦠 Microbe
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🦠 Emoji meaning
Watch out, I’m sick! Infection, contagion, epidemic, risk.
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🦠 Meaning
Beware, contagious or “Biology is my favorite subject“. Microbe is the short form of microorganism. Among the microscopic creatures are, e.g. bacteria, fungi or viruses. Most microorganisms are useful and only a few cause disease.
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Commonly confused with
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Microbe vs biohazard; both used to talk about infections, viruses, or contamination.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Microbe” was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ science
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ amoeba + bacteria + microbe + virus
