⚕️ Meaning – Medical Symbol

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The image of a snake entwined in a downward-spiral shape around a rod is the emoji that symbolizes medicine and health care services such as doctors or hospitals. It is called the “Staff of Aesculapius”, Caduceus in the US. Medical Symbol can mean "She works in a hospital." or "He is a famous neurologist doctor.".

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Medical Symbol details

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Uncode codepoint: U+2695 U+FE0F
Unicode name: Medical Symbol
Category: Symbols / Other Symbols
Keywords: medicine
Windows Alt-code: n/a
Decimal HTML Entity: ⚕️
Hex HTML Entity: ⚕️
UTF-16 hex: 0x2695 0xFE0F
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius
Version: Unicode 4.1
Year: 2005 (see all emoji of 2005)

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🌐 Medical Symbol translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	Äskulapstab	Apotheke, Asklepiosstab, Medizin
Français	caducée	médecine, personnel
Русский	медицинский символ	асклепий, жезл, медицина, посох со змеей
Español	símbolo de medicina	asclepio, esculapio, medicina, serpiente
Italiano	simbolo della medicina	bastone di esculapio, medicina
Português	símbolo da medicina	bastão de asclépio, esculápio, medicina, símbolo
Polski	symbol medycyny	eskulap, laska, medycyna

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How to type Medical Symbol

There are number of methods to type Medical Symbol. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste ⚕️ emoji

It's very easy to get Medical Symbol both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read ⚕️ meaning and look at ⚕️ pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

⚕️ emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.