U+1FA78 "🩸" Drop of Blood Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🩸
U+1FA78 "🩸" Drop of Blood is a pictographic symbol included in the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block, officially adopted as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019 to represent a single droplet of blood. Commonly used in digital communication, it serves as a visual shorthand for topics related to medicine, injury, blood donation, menstruation, or vampire lore, often conveying urgency, vulnerability, or gothic themes. Its design typically depicts a deep red teardrop-shaped oval with a pointed top and rounded bottom, making it distinct from similar emoji like the droplet or red heart.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA78 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Drop of Blood |
| Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| 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 0xA9 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDE78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FA78 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\ude78 |