U+1F3E5 "🏥" Hospital Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🏥
U+1F3E5 "🏥" Hospital is a pictographic representation of a medical facility, typically depicted as a square, two story building with a red cross or plus sign on its front and often a smaller adjacent structure. It is part of the Emoji 1.0 standard, introduced in 2015 under Unicode 8.0, and is used in digital communication to signify hospitals, healthcare, medical emergencies, or the concept of healing and treatment. The symbol draws from the universal red cross emblem for medical services, though its design may vary slightly across platforms, with some versions including a doorway or windows. In usage, it frequently appears in contexts relating to sick leave, vaccinations, health advice, or location based travel queries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F3E5 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Hospital |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🏥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🏥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDFE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F3E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udfe5 |