Meaning
A shallow glass or plastic dish used in laboratories to culture cells, bacteria, and other microorganisms.
Category: Objects
🧫petri dish
🧫 petri dish belongs to Objects. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:petri_dish:
Keywords
bacteriabiologistbiologyculturedishlabpetripetri dish
What does 🧫 petri dish mean?
The petri dish emoji 🧫 depicts a common piece of laboratory equipment used in biology and microbiology. It is often used to represent scientific research, experiments, and the study of bacteria or fungi. Depending on context, it can also refer to academic biology classes or the concept of growing and testing cultures.
Often used for
- Discussing biology or microbiology classes
- Talking about laboratory experiments and research
- Referencing bacteria, viruses, or fungi
- Mentioning scientific discoveries or testing
Tone: The tone is generally neutral and academic. In addition to its literal scientific context, it is also used metaphorically to mean an 'incubator' for ideas or a place where something, like a disease, can spread.
Illustrative message examples with 🧫
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- forgot to wash my hands after bio lab 🧫
- we're growing bacteria cultures today 🧫
- the samples in the petri dish are already growing 🧫
- studying for my microbiology final 🧫
- need to check the cultures in the lab tomorrow 🧫
Combos, text art & scenes with 🧫
How 🧫 petri dish looks
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🧫 petri dish codes for developers
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| Emoji | 🧫 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1F9EB | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧫 | |
| HTML (hex) | 🧫 | |
| CSS | \1F9EB | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9EB} | |
| JSON | \uD83E\uDDEB | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%AB | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :petri_dish: |
🧫 in other languages
Spanishplaca de petriFrenchboîte de pétriGermanPetrischaleItalianpiastra di PetriPortugueseplaca de PetriRussianчашка ПетриJapaneseペトリ皿Korean페트리 접시Chinese培养皿Lithuanianpetri lėkštelėPolishpłytka Petriego
Source: Unicode CLDR
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