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What 🩸 means
A red droplet similar in design to the blue 💧 Droplet. The 🩸 Drop of Blood emoji represents blood as the name suggests. It signifies a source of life, a sense of oneness and similarity, menstruation, and the literal and metaphorical contexts of blood; shedding or saving it.
How and when to use it
- Shedding or saving blood has more than just one meaning and deep significances, and you may use 🩸 in all such scenarios. Some hypothetical conversations are as follows:
- Something as literal as "There was quite some blood lost on that crime scene 🩸". Or something as indirect as, "Great is the victory that is won without any bloodshed 🩸" or "Nothing is ever worth bleeding for 🩸".
- Blood may also symbolize horror, dread, fear, danger, etc. Although consecutively negative, 🩸 would come in handy for all such themes.
- If you're using blood-related idioms, like being thicker than water (family), blood money, or just blood-based contexts like murder, crime, hard work ("sweat and blood"), blood donations, 🩸 is mandatory.
- If you're sharing informative and educative content on periods (aka menstruation, flow, menstrual cycle, horror show, etc), bring in 🩸.
Other Names
- 🩸 Red Droplet
- 🩸 Blood
- 🩸 Blood Drop
- 🩸 Blood Shed
- 🩸 Menstruation
- 🩸 Period
- 🩸 Blood Donation
- 🩸 Bleed
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › medical
- Codepoints
U+1FA78- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:drop_of_blood:- Keywords
- bleed, blood, donation, drop, injury, medicine, menstruation
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🩸 Drop of Blood or 🅿️ P Button?