Petri dish emoji 🧫
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F9EB
What 🧫 means
Petri dish 🧫 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: bacteria, biologist, biology, culture, dish, lab, petri.
Those words also drive emoji search: try bacteria or biologist on your phone to find 🧫.
On the emoji keyboard, 🧫 sits with the science (7 emoji) inside objects, which has 268 emoji, for example 🧬 🔬 🔭 📡.
Will 🧫 show on my friend's phone?
🧫 dates from Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🧫
To find 🧫 quickly, type petri dish into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type petri dish.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type petri dish in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type petri dish.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🧫 as one code point, U+1F9EB: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9EB | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧫 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧫 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9EB"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9EB} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%AB | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 AB |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧫 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | petri dish |
| Português | placa de Petri |
| Español | placa de petri |
| Italiano | piastra di Petri |
| Français | boîte de pétri |
| Deutsch | Petrischale |
| Türkçe | petri kabı |
| Bahasa Indonesia | cawan petri |
| Polski | płytka Petriego |
| Русский | чашка Петри |
| 日本語 | ペトリ皿 |
| 한국어 | 페트리 접시 |
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All objects emoji →Questions people ask
What does the petri dish emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧫 "petri dish" and links it with bacteria, biologist, biology, culture. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the science subgroup of objects.
When was the petri dish emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the petri dish emoji?
To find 🧫 quickly, type petri dish into the emoji search.