Thermometer Emoji

Travel

A glass medical-style thermometer showing a red liquid column rising to indicate a temperature reading. The design is simple and clear, resembling the classic tools used to check for a fever or monitor outdoor conditions.

Usage Context

Used to talk about sickness, flu symptoms, or extreme weather conditions like heatwaves and freezing cold. It is a go-to icon for weather reports or complaining about a fever, frequently paired with the 🤒 face with thermometer or the 🔥 fire emoji when things get too hot.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, the thermometer has become a staple of digital communication for health tracking. Its inclusion was pushed by the need to represent medical diagnostics and meteorological data in mobile messaging as smartphone health apps became mainstream.

Details

Glyph

🌡

Unicode

U+1F321

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f321:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF21;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Travel

Subcategory sky & weather

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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