microscope

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Science · Emoji 1

Keywords

experiment
lab
microscope
science
tool

About this character

microscope belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+1F52C. It was added in Unicode 1.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F52C
Hex: 1F52C
Decimal: 128300
HTML: 🔬
CSS: \1F52C
JavaScript: \u{1F52C}
Python: \U0001F52C
UTF-8: F0 9F 94 AC

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

alembic U+2697
test tube U+1F9EA
petri dish U+1F9EB
dna U+1F9EC
telescope U+1F52D
satellite antenna U+1F4E1

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.