🕷️ Spider

Emoji Meaning

A spider, an eight-legged arachnid that spins a web. Depicted as a common black spider, as a house spider or funnel-web spider, shown from above with its large abdomen oriented at the bottom.

See also 🕸️ Spider Web. Commonly used during Halloween and to represent the superhero Spider-Man.

Google's spider is upside down, suspended from a thread. Facebook’s spider is shown on its eight legs facing left. Microsoft’s spider was previously a black widow, Samsung’s was brown.

Spider was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.