🪱 worm Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the worm Emoji 🪱 Mean?

A pink or reddish-brown wiggly tube curled into an S-shape, the worm emoji captures the classic earthworm in a single squiggly silhouette. Some platforms add a slight gradient to suggest the segmented body, and most include a tiny eye or hint of a face on the front end to give it personality. People send it for gardening posts (worms = healthy soil), fishing trips, rainy-day sidewalk discoveries, and biology-class throwbacks.

It's also become a beloved character in internet meme culture — "silly little worm," "my worm," "worm on a string" — where users adopt the worm as a cute, harmless mascot for their goofy energy. Bookworm jokes, ear-worm song references, and the occasional gross-out post round out its uses. Added to Unicode 13.0 in 2020, the worm joined the major insect-and-creepy-crawly expansion that also brought the fly, beetle, and cockroach onto keyboards.

It's surprisingly cheerful for what it depicts, and that approachability has made it a low-key favorite on TikTok and Tumblr alike.