Biohazard Sign

Group: Dingbats

Keywords

dingbats

About this character

Biohazard Sign belongs to the Dingbats group and is encoded at U+2623. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

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

Technical codes

Code point: U+2623
Hex: 2623
Decimal: 9763
HTML: ☣
CSS: \2623
JavaScript: \u2623
Python: \u2623
UTF-8: E2 98 A3

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

Black Safety Scissors U+2700
Upper Blade Scissors U+2701
Black Scissors U+2702
Lower Blade Scissors U+2703
White Scissors U+2704
White Heavy Check Mark U+2705
Telephone Location Sign U+2706
Tape Drive U+2707
Airplane U+2708
Envelope U+2709
Raised Fist U+270A
Raised Hand U+270B
Victory Hand U+270C
Writing Hand U+270D
Lower Right Pencil U+270E
Pencil U+270F
Upper Right Pencil U+2710
White Nib U+2711
Black Nib U+2712
Check Mark U+2713
Heavy Check Mark U+2714
Multiplication X U+2715
Heavy Multiplication X U+2716
Ballot X U+2717

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.