⚕️Medical Symbol Emoji

What ⚕️ medical symbol means

An assortment that ends up doing heavy lifting in lists and checklists. ✅️ and ❌️ mark done and not done, and the Japanese origin shows: ⭕️ and ❌️ follow the maru and batsu convention, where a circle means correct and a cross means wrong, a pairing English marking never uses. 🔰 is Japan's badge for new drivers, and ©️, ®️ and ™️ fuel jokes about ownership.

Unicode tags this one aesculapius, medical and medicine and files it under Symbols → Other Symbols.

Copy variants

medical symbol carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

• ⚕️Emoji
• ⚕︎Text style
• ⚕No selector

Shortcodes

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

• :medical_symbol:GitHub / Discord
• :staff_of_aesculapius:Slack

How ⚕️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

1. ⚕U+2695medical symbol
2. ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Keywords

• aesculapius
• medical
• medicine
• staff
• symbol

Appears in these collections

• Gender
• Medical
• Nurses
• Symbols

How to type ⚕️

• Windows — press Win + . and search “medical symbol”.
• macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
• iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “aesculapius”.
• Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 2695 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