Hospital Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Hospital is U+1F3E5, Emoji 0.6, in the group Travel & Places, subgroup place-building, between Post office and Bank. Its CLDR words are building, doctor, hospital and medicine, and it is the only emoji filed under hospital; nothing is filed under clinic, ward, patient, surgery or visit. Ambulance is U+1F691, Emoji 0.6, between Minibus and Fire engine, and CLDR files it under emergency with Police car light and Safety vest. Health worker is U+1F9D1 U+200D U+2695 U+FE0F, Emoji 12.1; its skin tones are the five rows emoji-test.txt lists. Character names, aliases and notes are from UnicodeData.txt and NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt): U+1F3E5 is the only character named for a hospital; U+26E8 Black cross on shield is the first character under the heading Map symbols from ARIB STD B24, carries the alias hospital and a cross-reference to U+1F3E5; Thermometer is noted as temperature, warm. U+26E8 dates from Unicode 5.2 by DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt). Neither U+1F3E5 nor U+26E8 has a text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. The word: Wiktionary, hospital (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hospital): from Latin hospitalis, hospitable, from hospes, host, guest; a doublet of hotel and hostel. Wikipedia, Hospital (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital): hospes is the root of host, hospitality, hospice, hostel and hotel. Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) has no hospital or ambulance. The hospital words and the words in other languages are as Wiktionary gives them (CC BY-SA 4.0): hospital (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hospital), ward (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ward), emergency room (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emergency_room), A&E (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/A&E), clinic (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clinic), outpatient (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/outpatient), infirmary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infirmary), sickbay (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sickbay), maternity ward (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/maternity_ward), rounds (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rounds), teaching hospital (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/teaching_hospital), cottage hospital (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cottage_hospital), hospital corner (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hospital_corner), candy striper (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/candy_striper), children's hospital (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/children's_hospital), field hospital (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/field_hospital), 病院 (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/病院), Krankenhaus (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Krankenhaus), hôpital (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hôpital), ospedale (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ospedale). The seven typed emoticons, the two drawings, the nine lines and the combos are this site's own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.