pill

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Medical · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

doctor
drugs
medicated
medicine
pill
pills
sick
vitamin

About this character

pill belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+1F48A. It was added in Unicode 0.6.

Shortcode

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

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F48A
Hex: 1F48A
Decimal: 128138
HTML: 💊
CSS: \1F48A
JavaScript: \u{1F48A}
Python: \U0001F48A
UTF-8: F0 9F 92 8A

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

syringe U+1F489 Similar
drop of blood U+1FA78 Similar
adhesive bandage U+1FA79 Similar
crutch U+1FA7C Similar
stethoscope U+1FA7A Similar
x-ray U+1FA7B Similar

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.