Scissors Emoji
✂️
What does the Scissors emoji mean?
1
A couple of red-handled scissors with the blades open and pointing downward, regularly used to symbolize cutting someone or something off.
2
A pair of metal scissors with bright red handles, shown with the blades pointing down. This everyday stationery item is perfect for you to cut paper, cardboard, thread, fabric and other materials.
A smiling face emoji that includes a scissors image appears in many different conversation contexts. You’ll often find this symbol in office programs, editors and other software — its main meaning is cutting. People use it both literally and figuratively, and it’s also a common symbol for hairdressers.
Also Known As
- ✂️ Cutting
Apple Name
- ✂️ Scissors
Unicode Name
- ✂️ Black Scissors
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Scissors emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
✂️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+2702 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%9C%82%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--xbi |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 9C 82 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u2702\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u2702\uFE0F |
| CSS | \2702 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{2702}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{2702}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ✂️ |
| HTML dec | ✂️ |