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🪱 Worm

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🪱 Emoji meaning

Something’s not right! Uncertainty, disgust, creepiness, gardening, and soil.

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🪱 Meaning

The early bird catches the worm! You want to worm a secret out of someone. Some worms, such as the tapeworm, can cause disease, while others, such as the earthworm, are useful.

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Same Shape

Worm

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Fly vs worm; both small pests in gardening contexts, fly shape vs worm squiggle can blur at tiny size.

Worm

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Worm vs bug; both small segmented, crawling creatures.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Worm” was approved as part of Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to Emoji 13.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal

In the release of Emoji 12.1 and Unicode 12.1 in 2019 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ annelid + earthworm + parasite + worm

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