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🐝 Honeybee

Also known as: Bee, Bumblebee

Unicode: U+1F41D

Description

A honey bee, a busy, flying insect that lives in a hive and makes honey. Depicted as a black-and-yellow bee with clear or white wings and a stinger. Variously facing left in full profile or shown from above. May be used to represent various types of bees (e.g., bumblebee) and wasps (e.g., hornets, yellow jackets). May also be used to accent black-and-yellow colors or patterns. Popularly used in connection with singer and superstar Beyoncé (nicknamed Queen Bey) or for metaphorical queen bees. Can also be used to refer to the city of Manchester in the United Kingdom, as the worker bee is the symbol of the city.

Image Variants

Honeybee 3D

3D

Honeybee Color

Color

Honeybee Flat

Flat

Honeybee High Contrast

High Contrast

Version Information

Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0

Keywords

beehoneybeeinsect

Shortcodes

PlatformShortcodeAction
Emojipedia:honeybee:
GitHub:bee:
GitHub:honeybee:
Slack:bee:
Slack:honeybee:
Discord:bee:

Additional Information

Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:

A bee emoji, buzzing in the air. Shown with yellow and black stripes, and light colored wings. Platforms vary in their depiction, with some http://emojipedia.org/honeybee/

Verbs:
  • Travel through the air; be airborne
  • To cause to travel through the air.
  • To cause to fly : to transport via air or the like.
  • To move autonomously through the air, without any part of the object or object's enclosure touching anything attached to the ground.
  • To fly.
Nouns:
  • Insects are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body, three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae.
  • A class of the Arthropoda typically having a segmented body with an external chitinous covering, a pair of compound eyes, a pair of antennae, three pairs of mouthparts, and two pairs of wings.
  • An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
  • Arthropod of class insecta.
  • Small air-breathing arthropod
  • Class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum
  • A flying insect of the genus Bombus.
  • A bumblebee, also written bumble bee, is any member of the bee genus Bombus, in the family Apidae.
  • Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus.
  • Robust hairy social bee of temperate regions
  • Any member of the bee genus Bombus, in the family Apidae
  • Genus of bee.