As part of an HUD I'm designing, I'd like to use this symbol: 🏥

Since my site serves files in Windows-1252, any characters outside the 0-255 range are represented as `&#x____;`, with appropriate hex digits filling in the blank. In this case: `&#x1f3e5;`

However, when testing this out I noticed that IE can render the symbol, but Chrome cannot. I guess this question is this: What does IE have that Chrome doesn't, is there any way to give Chrome the ability to render these symbols, and if not can I detect that and replace it with an image?