Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
🏥Hospital Emoji
It usually means someone is talking about a hospital or healthcare. Often, it signifies someone needs medical attention or is discussing a health problem.
The 🏥 emoji is a hospital building.
- Unicode
- U+1F3E5
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :hospital:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🏥 Hospital emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
02 — Platforms
Hospital emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the hospital as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Hospital emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :hospital:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the hospital, code point U+1F3E5.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🏥 Hospital emoji
No picker to hand? The hospital can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Hospital emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the hospital as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Hospital emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hospital for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🏥 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 🏥 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — History
Where the 🏥 Hospital emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3E5 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🏥 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E666, KDDI au E5DF, SoftBank E155.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Hospital was approved as U+1F3E5 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🏥 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
11 — FAQ