U+1F48A "💊" Pill Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
💊
U+1F48A "💊" Pill is a pictographic representation of a two-tone capsule, typically depicted in colors like red and blue or green and yellow to suggest a medicinal or pharmaceutical context. It is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize medication, health care, vitamins, supplements, or the act of taking a pill, often in discussions about illnesses, treatments, wellness routines, or warnings about drug use. The character belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, reflecting the growing need for emoji to convey medical and health-related concepts in text messaging and social media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F48A |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Pill |
| 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 0x92 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F48A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc8a |