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🩸Drop Of Blood Emoji

🩸 drop of blood — U+1FA78, added in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Unicode groups it with the other 7 medical emojis under Objects.

What 🩸 drop of blood means

Health updates, appointments and injuries. 💉 covers vaccinations, blood tests and needle fear, and Apple redrew it without blood droplets in iOS 14.2 in 2020 so it would suit vaccine posts. The drop of blood 🩸 was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019 after public campaigning for a period emoji. 🩹 is often figurative, marking a temporary fix.

Unicode tags this one bleed, blood and donation and files it under Objects → Medical.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1FA78`
HTML hex	`🩸`
HTML decimal	`🩸`
CSS	`\1FA78`
JavaScript	`\u{1FA78}`
Python	`\U0001FA78`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDE78`
Rust	`\u{1fa78}`
Swift	`\u{1FA78}`
PHP	`\u{1FA78}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A9%B8`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A9 B8`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DE78`
Base64	`8J+puA==`
Decimal	`129656`
Introduced	Emoji 12.0 (2019)

Keywords

bleed
blood
donation
drop
injury
medicine
menstruation

Appears in these collections

Drop

How to type 🩸

Windows — press Win + . and search “drop of blood”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bleed”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1fa78 and Enter.
HTML — paste 🩸.

How 🩸 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🩸Apple
🩸Segoe
🩸Noto
🩸System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🩸 drop of blood emoji mean?+

🩸 is the drop of blood emoji, tagged bleed, blood and donation. Health updates, appointments and injuries. 💉 covers vaccinations, blood tests and needle fear, and Apple redrew it without blood droplets in iOS 14.2 in 2020 so it would suit vaccine posts. The drop of blood 🩸 was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019 after public campaigning for a period emoji. 🩹 is often figurative, marking a temporary fix.

What is the Unicode code for 🩸?+

drop of blood is U+1FA78. In HTML that is 🩸, in CSS \1FA78, and in JavaScript \u{1FA78}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🩸 emoji added?+

drop of blood got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Related emojis

More emojis from Medical in Objects.

Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🩸 drop of blood.