🩻

X-ray Emoji 🩻

What 🩻 means

A depiction of a typical X-ray of the face and the shoulders. Though a little scary and edgy, this emoji showcases the X-ray with the quintessential blue glow for the skeleton that radiates towards the sheet's darkness. Making it all the more Halloween-ish.

The 🩻 X-Ray emoji signifies transparency in an evidently non-transparent situation. It highlights the ability to "see-through things". Apart from suggesting the obvious uses of an X-ray in the medical framework, this emoji may also hint at peculiar problem-solving skills. But above all, it's a design of the human skeleton that can be used to scare some guts.

How and when to use it

Starting from the abrupt inference in the intro; problem-solving. An X-ray is recommended when there's an underlying problem that's not visible to the naked eye. This technology helps to actually see what the issue is, thus, leading to an eventual solution.
If you're applying the above interpretation in any context, use this emoji. For example, "Sometimes, you gotta dig deeper to find answers 🩻" or "Maybe you're just not looking at this the right way 🩻".
You could also use this emoji to represent the superpower of X-ray vision. Not many of us have it, but most of us gain this power over time and through tons of experience.
If you're the kind to do a little wordplay with emojis, then this emoji is for the times when you want someone to "read between the lines" or rather through those lines.
Use this emoji in obvious contexts such as fractures, scans, and other medical requirements.
One thing to bear in mind is that this emoji is a "universal symbol". This means, although the use-case and intention can differ in a conversation, this emoji may inevitably end up as a reference to the hospital or broken bones. Yo, you okay? What's with the X-ray? Got a fracture or sum? 🩻

Other Names

🩻 Face X-Ray
🩻 X-Ray Report
🩻 Face and Shoulder X-Ray
🩻 X-Ray Vision
🩻 X-Rays
🩻 See Through
🩻 Transparency
🩻 Bone Structure
🩻 Skeleton
🩻 CT Scan

The lowdown

Category: Objects › medical
Codepoints: U+1FA7B
Emoji version: Emoji 14.0
Shortcodes: :x_ray: GitHub · Discord:x-ray: Slack
Keywords: bones, doctor, medical, skeleton, skull, x-ray, xray

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.