What ๐งโ๐ฌ means
A person in a lab coat and goggles, standing for science, research and lab work. It covers chemists, biologists, physicists and engineers.
Students and researchers use it for lab days, experiments and exams, often with ๐งช ๐ฌ or ๐งฌ. Casual chat uses it for a home experiment, such as a strange recipe: โtrying this for science ๐งโ๐ฌโ. It also praises someone who explains the data well.
Facts
Scientist ๐งโ๐ฌ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง person and ๐ฌ microscope. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :scientist:. People also look for it with words like โbiologistโ, โchemistโ, โengineerโ, or โmathematicianโ.
Made of
๐ง+๐ฌ=๐งโ๐ฌ
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.1)
- 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.1)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2020
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 12.1