Medical symbol
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- Shortcode
:medical_symbol:- Unicode
U+2695- HTML
⚕- CSS
\2695- JavaScript
"\u{2695}"- URL
%E2%9A%95%EF%B8%8F
What ⚕️ means
The rod of Asclepius: a single snake wrapped around a staff, a long-standing symbol of medicine. It stands for health care, doctors and medical topics.
Health workers put ⚕️ in bios, and people use it in posts about appointments, medical school, nursing and health news. Joined with a person emoji, it forms health worker emoji such as 🧑⚕️.
It is often confused with the caduceus, a staff with two snakes and wings, which many groups also use for medicine.
Facts
Medical symbol ⚕️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under other symbol. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. 3 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :medical_symbol:. People also look for it with words like “aesculapius”, “medical”, “medicine”, or “staff”.
Timeline
- 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
- 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)👨⚕️👩⚕️
- 2019New emoji built from it (Emoji 12.1)🧑⚕️
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.