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🧪Test Tube Emoji
The test tube emoji 🧪 carries the codepoint U+1F9EA and has been in the standard since Emoji 11.0 (2018). It belongs to Objects → Science Equipment.
What 🧪 test tube means
Lab work, experiments and anything framed as research, including the loose sense in which people call simply trying something an experiment. Most of the set landed at once in Emoji 11.0 in 2018, which introduced the test tube 🧪, the petri dish 🧫 and the DNA helix 🧬. 🔬 and 🔭 are older, and 📡 covers signals, satellites and reaching out.
Unicode tags this one chemist, chemistry and experiment and files it under Objects → Science Equipment.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9EA | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧪 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧪 | |
| CSS | \1F9EA | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9EA} | |
| Python | \U0001F9EA | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDEA | |
| Rust | \u{1f9ea} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9EA} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9EA} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%AA | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 AA | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDEA | |
| Base64 | 8J+nqg== | |
| Decimal | 129514 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
- chemist
- chemistry
- experiment
- lab
- science
- test
- tube
How to type 🧪
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “test tube”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “chemist”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9eaand 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 🧪 test tube emoji mean?+
🧪 is the test tube emoji, tagged chemist, chemistry and experiment. Lab work, experiments and anything framed as research, including the loose sense in which people call simply trying something an experiment. Most of the set landed at once in Emoji 11.0 in 2018, which introduced the test tube 🧪, the petri dish 🧫 and the DNA helix 🧬. 🔬 and 🔭 are older, and 📡 covers signals, satellites and reaching out.
What is the Unicode code for 🧪?+
test tube is U+1F9EA. In HTML that is 🧪, in CSS \1F9EA, and in JavaScript \u{1F9EA}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧪 emoji added?+
test tube got its emoji presentation in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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 Science Equipment in Objects.
Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧪 test tube.