A hypodermic needle with liquid visible in the barrel — that's the syringe emoji. It's used for shots, vaccines, and blood draws, common in medical-appointment reminders and health updates, standing in for anything involving a needle rather than a pill.
What 💉 means
A left-tilting surgical syringe, with half a barrel of blood, and the plunger pulled a little away from the barrel's base. The needle fixated at the top of the barrel spurts out a couple of drops of the red liquid.
The 💉 Syringe emoji primarily represents injections, medication, and hospitalization. However, this emoji could have other interpretations. It may also signify injecting something into or out of a subject.
How and when to use it
- Use 💉 in contexts of 'injection' (both, noun and verb). For instance, "Guess I'll need to get that nasty injection 💉" or "YUCK. That drink felt like my every vein was injected with sewage 💉".
- Apart from literal interpretations of a needle, 💉 could be incorporated in frameworks of influence injection or in other words, a hypodermic needle situation/theory.
- 💉 can also be used to represent doctors, nurses, surgery, or a sense of nursing someone or something.
- Besides, 💉 could be brought into any framework of 'needles' as well (injectable needles, ofc), like tattooing.
- If you're texting someone about the 'shot' that you received (medical/medicated shots of course), use 💉. Similarly, 💉 could also symbolize a vaccine (one that's the desperate need of the hour, thankyou coronavirus. Now please leave).
Other Names
- 💉 Syringe With Blood
- 💉 Syringe Drawing Blood
- 💉 Injection
- 💉 Vaccination
- 💉 Shots
- 💉 Inject/Injecting
- 💉 Tattooing
- 💉 Hypodermic Needle
- 💉 Hypodermic Syringe
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › medical
- Codepoints
U+1F489- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:syringe:- Keywords
- doctor, flu, medicine, needle, shot, sick, syringe, tool, vaccination
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 — 💉 Syringe or 🫸 Rightwards Pushing Hand?