A building marked with a red cross or plus sign, the hospital emoji covers medical care and hospital visits of any kind. That's an appointment, a birth announcement, or just checking in on someone who's not feeling well.
What 🏥 means
A building structure very similar to the 🏤 Post Office emoji (a tall rectangular building in front and a shorter but broader building behind) designed with a huge red cross in place of the post horn.
The 🏥 Hospital emoji signifies a place of healing, care, and assistance for physical wounds, discomfort, and other tragedies. Although it houses both life and death, young and old, birth and mourning, a hospital is a symbol of life and hope on the whole.
How and when to use it
- If you're on the way to the hospital (just for a routine check, a dental appointment, or any other such scenarios where you can text and use emojis) or just getting back from one, you can use 🏥 while texting someone close about it or uploading a social media story/post of the same.
- 🏥 can also be used in goofy conversations to indicate a clearly blown-out-of-proportion context. For instance, "Omg! That makeover is insanely good! I think I might pass out with this intense excitement filling my heart. Please make a reservation 🏥".
- While sending someone "get well soon" texts, 🏥 can be an optional emoji to use (depending on the situation).
- If you're a part of the medical department, you can use 🏥 in your social media profile name.
- Use 🏥 while posting or reposting general or specific posts about hospitals, medical services, doctors, paramedics, nurses, and COVID-19.
Other Names
- 🏥 Clinic
- 🏥 Health Centre
- 🏥 Infirmary
- 🏥 Hospice
- 🏥 Nursing Home
- 🏥 Emergency Room
- 🏥 Medical
- 🏥 Red Cross
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › place-building
- Codepoints
U+1F3E5- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:hospital:- Keywords
- building, doctor, hospital, medicine
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 — 🏥 Hospital or 👨👩👧👦 Family: Man, Woman, Girl, Boy?