The dna emoji 🧬 is the iconic double helix, aka the world’s fanciest spiral staircase for genes. On Apple, it shows a glossy, 3D helix with blue-to-purple strands and colorful crossbars, tilted at a slight diagonal like it’s mid-spin in a science doc—clean, shiny, and instantly recognizable.
People use it for everything genetics: CRISPR hot takes, lab breakthroughs, ancestry-test humblebrags, or jokes about family traits you can’t escape. In meme speak, it screams “innate”: talent in my DNA, chaos in my DNA, espresso addiction coded into ATCG. Stans toss it into captions like “rhythm in my DNA,” and gym posts pair it with flexed biceps to declare beast mode is literally hereditary. For lab-life vibes, it rolls with the microscope, test tube, and sparkles to celebrate experiments, PCR wins, or sequencing news.
It works great ironically too—blaming procrastination on genetics, or when your sourdough keeps mutating into a brick. Cultural nod: the double helix became famous after the 1953 model by Watson and Crick, powered by Rosalind Franklin’s Photo 51; this emoji shrinks that whole saga into one tidy twist. Bonus: perfect for nerd-flirt energy—“nice genes,” compatibility jokes, and that smug “built different” aura.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 714 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 12 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🧬 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🧬 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🧬 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🧬 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f9ec |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9EC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129516 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0xAC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 AC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 254 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDEC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddec |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56812 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9EC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9EC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129516 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9EC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\xac" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDEC" |
