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Technical information
| Symbol | ⚕ | |
| Name | Staff of aesculapius | |
| Unicode number | U+2695 | |
| Category | Religious and political symbolsMedical and healing symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character ⚕, or U+2695, is known as the "Staff of Aesculapius". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of the staff entwined by a snake, which is a symbol associated with the Greek god Asclepius who is a deity associated with healing and medicinal arts in Greek mythology. It is widely used in the medical field as a symbol of medicine and healthcare. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ⚕ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ⚕ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9A%95 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9A 0x95 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011010:10010101 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2695 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002695 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2695" | |
| CSS Code | \2695 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2695" | |
| Perl | \x{2695} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2695" | |
| Python 3 | \u2695 | |
| Ruby | \u{2695} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ⚕ in sentence and in bold like this ⚕ and in italic like this ⚕.
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Font size:
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>⚕</span>
span {
content: "\2695";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana