The Health Worker emoji represents professionals in the healthcare field, such as doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. It’s often used to show appreciation for medical workers, highlight health-related topics, or symbolize care and wellness.
Technically, this emoji is a combination (ZWJ sequence) of the 🧑 Person emoji, a Zero Width Joiner, and the ⚕️ Medical Symbol—which together display as a single image on most modern platforms.
The Health Worker emoji was officially added in Emoji version 12.1 in 2019, making it a meaningful addition to conversations about health, medicine, and frontline heroes.
| Emoji | 🧑⚕️ |
| Unicode Name | Health Worker |
| Apple Name | Health Worker |
| Also Known As | |
| Codepoints | U+1F9D1, U+200D, U+2695, U+FE0F |
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | সবসথযকরম |
| Danish | sundhedspersonale |
| German | arzt ärztin |
| English | health worker |
| Spanish | profesional sanitario |
| French | professionnel de la santé tous genres |
| Hindi | सवसथय करयकरत |
| Italian | persona che lavora nella sanità |
| Japanese | 医者 |
| Korean | 의료인 |
| Marathi | आरगयवषयक करय करणर वयकत |
| Malay | pekerja kesihatan |
| Dutch | gezondheidsmedewerker |
| Norwegian | helsearbeider |
| Portuguese | profissional de saúde |
| Swedish | läkare |
| Tamil | சகதர பணயளர |
| Telugu | వదయ సహయకల |
| Chinese | 卫生工作者 |