petri dish

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Science · Emoji 11

Keywords

bacteria
biologist
biology
culture
dish
lab
petri

About this character

petri dish belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+1F9EB. It was added in Unicode 11.0.

Shortcode

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

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F9EB
Hex: 1F9EB
Decimal: 129515
HTML: 🧫
CSS: \1F9EB
JavaScript: \u{1F9EB}
Python: \U0001F9EB
UTF-8: F0 9F A7 AB

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

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.