U+1F52C "🔬" Microscope Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🔬
U+1F52C "🔬" Microscope is a pictographic representation of a laboratory microscope, typically depicted in a stylized, side view with a base, arm, eyepiece, and objective lenses. Introduced as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to the Emoji 1.0 set in 2015, it is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize scientific research, analysis, medicine, biology, and the act of examining something in close detail. Its design can vary across platforms, with some showing it in silver or gray tones and others in blue or black, but it consistently conveys tools of observation and discovery.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F52C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Microscope |
| 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 0x94 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F52C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd2c |