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Spider web
U+1F578 · Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
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Meaning and uses
A spider web emoji. It suits Halloween, haunted houses and gothic themes, and it pairs well with 🕷 and 🦇.
Unicode details
🕸 is the Unicode character named SPIDER WEB, code point U+1F578, in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. It was added in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).
It can also appear as an emoji, listed under the name “spider web”. Plain text is its default, but some apps draw it in colour anyway. Adding the invisible variation selector U+FE0F after it asks for the emoji style, and U+FE0E asks for plain text.
| Unicode name | SPIDER WEB |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+1F578 |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Added | Unicode 7.0 (2014) |
| Emoji name | spider web |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 95 B8 |
| UTF-16 | D83D DD78 |
| HTML | 🕸 |
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How to type 🕸
- On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
- On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “spider web”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
- On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “spider web”.
- On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 1f578, then Space or Enter.
- In HTML, use
🕸. In a CSScontentproperty, use"\1F578".