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Biohazard Emoji ☣️

Three interlocking crescents on a warning label, the biohazard emoji marks contamination the same way it does on real lab signage. Beyond literal danger, it gets used for anything gross or toxic in a joking way — a chaotic apartment, a questionable leftovers container — and doubles as punk and goth aesthetic shorthand.

What ☣️ means

A round orange background, same as the one in ☢️ Radioactivity, but consisting of a white pattern of three almost-full-circles connected to each other and placed on the white outline of a full circle.

The ☣️ Biohazard emoji refers to biological elements that are toxic or dangerous by nature. Thus, this emoji is the perfect representation of deathly viruses, harmful edibles, and other such lethal, but biological and freely available elements.

How and when to use it

How and When to Use the ☣️ Biohazard Emoji

Biohazards lay down an immense amount of risk, which, if encountered, could be endangering human life. If you're talking about this kind of risk in any context, use ☣️.
Biohazardous material is not only harmful, but it is contaminated and contagious. So, while referring to negatively contagious aspects or something that's contaminated/adulterated, you may bring in ☣️.
A few examples for the previous use-case - "Gossip is contagious ☣️", "Protect your spirit from the contamination of negative energies ☣️", or "Negative people have a problem for every solution. Keep away☣️".
Since biohazard consumption is fatal and life is eventually 'leeched' out till death comes, ☣️ can be used to refer to anything that's draining, exhausting and mostly, deathly - "They're all so draining ☣️".

Other Names

☣️ Biohazardous Element(s)
☣️ Biological Agent
☣️ Health Hazard
☣️ Contamination
☣️ Contagious
☣️ Biohazard Sign
☣️ Threat
☣️ Waste (Animal/Human)

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › warning
Codepoints: U+2623 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :biohazard: GitHub
Keywords: biohazard, sign

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.