Microscope Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 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). Microscope is U+1F52C, Emoji 1.0, in the group Objects, subgroup science: DNA is printed before it and Telescope after it. CLDR gives it five search words (experiment, lab, microscope, science, tool); it is the only emoji filed under microscope, one of seven under science (all seven are tiles here), one of six under lab and one of three under experiment. Scientist, Man scientist and Woman scientist are sequences that end in U+1F52C. Character names and the mapping of the micro sign (U+00B5) to Greek small letter mu are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt); the emoji has no text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. The meanings of the two Han characters are the kDefinition lines of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). That microscope comes from Greek words for small and to look at is from Wiktionary, microscope (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/microscope, CC BY-SA 4.0); the idiom under the microscope and the Japanese and Chinese words for a microscope are from Wiktionary too (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/under_the_microscope and the entries for the two words). That micro is the prefix for one millionth, from the Greek mikrós, small, that Unicode has both U+03BC and the legacy U+00B5 for it and that a typical bacterium is 1 to 10 μm across is from Wikipedia, Micro- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-, CC BY-SA 4.0); the micrometer (micrometre outside the US) and its symbol from Wikipedia, Micrometre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrometre). The eyepiece and objective magnifications and the 1,000× example are from Wikipedia, Optical microscope (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_microscope). Alt+230 for the micro sign is from Wikipedia, Code page 437 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437), and how an Alt code works from Wikipedia, Alt code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code). The six typed emoticons, the three drawings, the seven lines and the twelve combos are this site’s own work, and so is the choice of things to put on a slide. 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 and Unihan 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.