U+1F9EB "🧫" Petri Dish Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F9EB "🧫" Petri Dish is a pictographic representation of a shallow, circular glass or plastic dish used primarily in microbiology and biology laboratories to culture microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and cells. Officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of the Emoji 11.0 release, this symbol often appears in contexts related to scientific research, experiments, disease studies, and laboratory work. Its design typically shows a round dish with a slightly raised lid, sometimes with visible colored dots or streaks inside to suggest microbial growth, making it a concise visual cue for topics involving cultivation and analysis in a sterile environment.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9EB |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Petri Dish |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA7 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDEB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddeb |