| Emoji | 🧫 |
| Name | petri dish |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F9EB |
| Category | Objects |
| Subcategory | Science |
| Emoji Version | 11 |
| Tags | bacteria, biologist, biology, culture, dish, lab, petri |
| Decimal Value | 129515 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F9EB |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 🧫 / 🧫 |
The petri dish emoji represents an everyday object, commonly used literally when referring to that specific item in conversation, or as a quick visual bullet-point/icon in lists, status updates, and notes.
Category context: The Objects category is a broad collection of everyday items — electronics, tools, household items, clothing, and more — used to add concrete, literal visual references to conversations about daily life and work.
Cataloged under Science within the Objects category, petri dish is the 221st of 266 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 11 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F9EB.
💡 Good to know: Technology and device emoji in this category are updated periodically to reflect current device designs, though rendering can lag behind the latest real-world product designs.
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The petri dish emoji is Unicode U+1F9EB.
The petri dish emoji represents an everyday object, commonly used literally when referring to that specific item in conversation, or as a quick visual bullet-point/icon in lists, status updates, and notes.