✂️ Scissors
Emoji Meaning
A pair of scissors, as used to cut paper or hair. Generally shown open, blades down, with red handles. Commonly used for content concerning haircuts, fashion design, arts and crafts, and various senses of cutting, like Orla and Laura.
WhatsApp’s design features green handles with blades pointed up.
See the glossary for the term black in Unicode character names.
Scissors was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 under the name “Black Scissors” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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Also Known As
- ✂️ Cutting
Apple Name
✂️ Scissors
Unicode Name
✂️ Black Scissors
Codepoints
Shortcodes
- :scissors: (Discord, Github, Slack, Emojipedia)
See also
- 🧶 Yarn
- 💈 Barber Pole
- 🧔 Person: Beard
- 📋 Clipboard
- 💇 Person Getting Haircut
- 🔪 Kitchen Knife
- 🔗 Link
- 🖇️ Linked Paperclips
- 🖍️ Crayon
- 📰 Newspaper
- 📔 Notebook with Decorative Cover
- 📄 Page Facing Up
- 📃 Page with Curl
- 📎 Paperclip
- 📌 Pushpin
- 🪒 Razor
- 🎀 Ribbon
- 🧷 Safety Pin
- 🎒 Backpack
- 🪡 Sewing Needle
- 🧵 Thread
- 📏 Straight Ruler
- 📐 Triangular Ruler
Browse
- ✂️ on Instagram
- ✂️ on Twitter
- ✂️ on Wikipedia
- ✂️ on Yelp
- ✂️ on YouTube
- ✂️ on Google Trends
- ✂️ on Nomad List