💊Pill Emoji
Generally, the 💊 emoji means a pill or medicine. People use it when they’re talking about taking something to feel better or when discussing health-related topics.
The 💊 emoji is a pill capsule.
- Unicode
- U+1F48A
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :pill:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 💊 Pill emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
People also look for it as drugs emoji.
Pill emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F48A — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your pill looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Pill emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :pill:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F48A.
How to type the 💊 Pill emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Pill emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Pill emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pill for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 💊, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 💊 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 💊 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the pill lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 💊 Pill 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+1F48A 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
KDDI au EA9A, SoftBank E30F.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Pill was approved as U+1F48A 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.