syringe

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Medical · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

doctor
flu
medicine
needle
shot
sick
syringe
tool
vaccination

About this character

syringe belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+1F489. 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+1F489
Hex: 1F489
Decimal: 128137
HTML: 💉
CSS: \1F489
JavaScript: \u{1F489}
Python: \U0001F489
UTF-8: F0 9F 92 89

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.