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What 🩺 means
A typical medical stethoscope with a pair of silvery grey ear tubes and a bell at the bottom, while the rest of the device; earpieces, tubing, stem, and diaphragm are made with blackish rubber.
Apart from representing the medical equipment used to listen to the inner sounds of a living being, the 🩺 Stethoscope emoji could also signify a sense of paying attention, observing, and overall ensuring internal health.
How and when to use it
- Although cheesy, 🩺 can be used in romantic and platonic contexts of showing love (in both text messages and post captions). Like, "All you got to do is listen, to know the person 🩺" or "I feel you, bro 🩺" (heart to heart, in a sense).
- Speaking of feelings! 🩺 is the perfect emoji. For instance, "My face is not always an index of what I'm feeling 🩺"
- While talking about "inner health" and what's on the inside, you can use 🩺. For example, "The basic way to start with self-love is by fixing the inside 🩺" or "It doesn't matter how much wealth you wear on the outside, it wouldn't cover up the real person you are within 🩺".
- If you're advising someone about visiting the doctor or informing someone of the same for you, use 🩺 - "Dude. You sounded terrible on call. Please see the doc? 🩺" or "My lungs feel like they're screaming for some attention. Might as well go to the hospital 🩺".
- 🩺 can be used to indicate medical school, medicine, doctorates, etc.
Other Names
- 🩺 Chest Scope
- 🩺 Medic
- 🩺 Listening Device
- 🩺 Observing
- 🩺 Internal Sounds
- 🩺 Doctor's Headphones
- 🩺 Mediate Auscultation
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › medical
- Codepoints
U+1FA7A- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:stethoscope:- Keywords
- doctor, heart, medicine, stethoscope
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 — 🩺 Stethoscope or 🦑 Squid?