Test tube emoji 🧪
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F9EA
What 🧪 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🧪 are chemist, chemistry, experiment, lab, science, test, tube. They show what people use it for.
Search for chemist or chemistry on your emoji keyboard and 🧪 is among the results.
You will find 🧪 among the science (7 emoji), part of objects with 268 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🧫 🧬 🔬 🔭.
Will 🧪 show on my friend's phone?
Emoji 11.0 brought 🧪 in 2018. Most phones show it now; only devices that have not been updated for years miss it.
How to type 🧪
Search for test tube in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🧪.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type test tube.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type test tube in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type test tube.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🧪 is one code point (U+1F9EA), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9EA | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧪 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧪 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9EA"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9EA} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%AA | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 AA |
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 | test tube |
| Português | tubo de ensaio |
| Español | tubo de ensayo |
| Italiano | provetta |
| Français | tube à essai |
| Deutsch | Reagenzglas |
| Türkçe | deney tüpü |
| Bahasa Indonesia | tabung uji |
| Polski | probówka |
| Русский | пробирка |
| 日本語 | 試験管 |
| 한국어 | 시험관 |
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What does the test tube emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧪 "test tube" and links it with chemist, chemistry, experiment, lab. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the science subgroup of objects.
When was the test tube emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the test tube emoji?
Search for test tube in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🧪.