Petri dish
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- Shortcode
:petri_dish:- Unicode
U+1F9EB- HTML
🧫- CSS
\1F9EB- JavaScript
"\u{1F9EB}"- URL
%F0%9F%A7%AB
What ๐งซ means
A shallow lab dish with a culture growing in it. It means bacteria, microbiology and growing samples.
Biology students and lab workers use it for cultures and experiments. Jokingly it describes a dirty sink or a fridge full of old leftovers. With ๐ฆ it points to germs and infection.
Facts
Petri dish ๐งซ is an emoji in the objects category, under science. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :petri_dish:. People also look for it with words like โbacteriaโ, โbiologistโ, โbiologyโ, or โcultureโ.
Timeline
- 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2018
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.