⚕️Meaning and Description
The ⚕ emoji is designed as a staff with a snake🐍 coiled around it. Its ancient and significant design makes it a powerful symbol, especially in contexts related to health, medicine, and healing.
The meaning behind the Medical emoji is all about health, medicine💊, and the medical field. It's a tribute to doctors, nurses, and all those who work tirelessly to make us feel better. And you might spot the ⚕️ emoji when people are discussing health-related topics, sharing updates about medical appointments, or even expressing gratitude for healthcare professionals.
💡The Staff of Aesculapius⚕️ is not to be confused with the Caduceus☤, which is another symbol of medicine that has two snakes and wings on a rod. The Caduceus is actually the symbol of Hermes, the messenger god and the patron of commerce, thieves, and travelers.
💡Extended reading and popular science
The current ⚕️ is a variant Emoji (emoji style, displaying colorful symbols on most new platforms), and it has two corresponding Emoji: ⚕ (basic Emoji without variant symbols) and ⚕︎ (text style, displaying black and white symbols on some old platforms). ⚕️ (emoji style) = (base style) + emoji style
The meaning of emoji symbol ⚕️ is medical symbol, it is related to aesculapius, medicine, staff, it can be found in emoji category: "🛑 Symbols" - "☑️ other-symbol".
Wikipedia: ⚕️ Rod of Asclepius
🌐: عصا أسكليبيوس, Aeskulapova hůl, Æskulapstav, Äskulapstab, Ράβδος του Ασκληπιού, Vara de Esculapio, چوبدست اسقلبیوس, Asklepioksen sauva, Bâton d'Asclépios, מטה אסקלפיוס, Asklepijev štap, Aszklépiosz botja, Tongkat Asklepios, Bastone di Asclepio, アスクレピオスの杖, 아스클레피오스의 지팡이, Asklepijo lazda, Tongkat Asklepios, Esculaap, Asklepios#Asklepiosstaven, Laska Eskulapa, Bordão de Asclépio, Toiagul lui Esculap, Посох Асклепия, Asklepiova palica, Asklepijeva palica, Asklepijev štap, Eskulapstav, คทาแอสคลีเพียส, Посох Асклепія, Cây gậy của Asclepius, 阿斯克勒庇俄斯之杖.
⚕️Examples and Usage
🔸 Popular science: ⚕️ The shedding of snakes represents recovery and renew, and is regarded as a symbol of "rebirth" by people. Snake venom is both poisonous and can also be used for medicinal purposes. The snake stick also implies that the doctor is between "life and death", "health and disease”.
🔸 The Indian medical association ⚕️ has declared a state of medical emergency.
🔸 ⚕️ (2695 FE0F) = ⚕ (2695) + emoji style (FE0F)
⚕️Emoji Leaderboard / Trend Chart
⚕️Leaderboard
Type | Current Rank | Rank Trend |
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Daily (All Languages) | 100 | 9 |
Weekly (All Languages) | 111 | 17 |
Monthly (English) | 879 | 567 |
Yearly (All Languages) | 121 | 31 |
Gender: Female | 326 | 35 |
Gender: Male | 648 | 142 |
🇧🇷 Brazil | 7 | -- |
⚕Popularity rating over time
⚕️Basic Information
Emoji: | ⚕️ (emoji style) |
Shortname: | medical symbol |
Apple Name: | staff of Aesculapius |
Known as: | Aesculapius | Asklepios | Rod of Asclepius |
Codepoint: | U+2695 FE0F Copy |
Decimal: | ALT+9877 ALT+65039 |
Unicode Version: | None |
Emoji Version: | 4.0 (2016-11-22) |
Categories: | 🛑 Symbols |
Sub Categories: | ☑️ other-symbol |
Keywords: | aesculapius | medical symbol | medicine | staff |
👨💻Unicode Information (Advanced Usage)
⚕️See also
⚕️Relative Topic
⚕️Combos and Memes
⚕️Images from Various Manufacturers
⚕️Extended Content
⚕️More Languages
Language | Short Name & Link |
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Portuguese, International | ⚕️ símbolo da medicina |
Azerbaijani | ⚕️ tibb işarəsi |
Filipino | ⚕️ simbolong pang-medikal |
Indonesian | ⚕️ simbol kedokteran |
Croatian | ⚕️ simbol medicine |
Arabic | ⚕️ رمز طبي |
Slovak | ⚕️ lekársky symbol |
Finnish | ⚕️ lääketieteen symboli |
Greek | ⚕️ ιατρικό σύμβολο |
German | ⚕️ Äskulapstab |