⚕️ Medical Symbol
Emoji Meaning
A symbol displaying of a rod with a snake entwined around the outside in a downward-spiral shape.
Associated with medicine and health care services such as doctors or hospitals. A similar and related symbol called the Caduceus is frequently used in the United States.
Medical Symbol was approved as part of Unicode 4.1 in 2005 under the name “Staff of Aesculapius” and added to Emoji 4.0 in 2016.
Copy and Paste
Also Known As
- ⚕️ Aesculapius
- ⚕️ Asklepios
- ⚕️ Rod of Asclepius
Apple Name
⚕️ Staff of Aesculapius
Unicode Name
⚕️ Staff of Aesculapius
Codepoints
Shortcodes
- :medical_symbol: (Discord, GitHub, Slack, Emojipedia)
- :staff_of_aesculapius: (Slack)
See also
- 🧬 DNA
- ♀️ Female Sign
- 🏥 Hospital
- ♂️ Male Sign
- 👨⚕️ Man Health Worker
- 💊 Pill
- 🐍 Snake
- 💉 Syringe
- 👩⚕️ Woman Health Worker
- ☯️ Yin Yang
Browse
- ⚕️ on Instagram
- ⚕️ on Twitter
- ⚕️ on Wikipedia
- ⚕️ on Yelp
- ⚕️ on YouTube
- ⚕️ on Google Trends
- ⚕️ on Nomad List
Proposals
- Staff of Aesculapius Emoji Proposal: L2/16-160