Pill

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Shortcode
:pill:
Unicode
U+1F48A
HTML
💊
CSS
\1F48A
JavaScript
"\u{1F48A}"
URL
%F0%9F%92%8A

doctordrugsmedicatedmedicinepillssickvitamin

What ๐Ÿ’Š means

A two-tone capsule. It means medicine, prescriptions and taking something to feel better.

Reminders to take meds, sick-day updates and pharmacy talk use it. "Take a chill ๐Ÿ’Š" tells someone to calm down.

It can also refer to recreational drugs. The "red pill" phrase from The Matrix carries political baggage in some online circles.

Facts

Pill ๐Ÿ’Š is an emoji in the objects category, under medical. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :pill:. People also look for it with words like โ€œdoctorโ€, โ€œdrugsโ€, โ€œmedicatedโ€, or โ€œmedicineโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. pill, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. pill, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. pill, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. pill, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

objects ยท Unicode 6.0