Scissors Emoji ✂️

This emoji shows a pair of open scissors with red handles, used to cut things like paper.

✂️ Scissors is a fully-qualified emoji, part of Unicode 0.6 , and was added to Emoji 0.6 .

This emoji is part of the Objects and is grouped with other Office emojis. Part of the Unicode Dingbats block.

  • Copy and paste the Scissors emoji:

  • ✂️

Codes & Encoding for the Scissors Emoji

Click any code below to copy it to your clipboard.

  • CodepointU+2702 U+FE0F ✓ Copied
  • HTML (decimal)✂️ ✓ Copied
  • HTML (hex)✂️ ✓ Copied
  • CSS\2702\FE0F ✓ Copied
  • JavaScript\u{2702}\u{FE0F} ✓ Copied
  • URL-encoded%E2%9C%82%EF%B8%8F ✓ Copied
  • Shortcode:scissors: ✓ Copied
  • Unicode block Dingbats

How to Type the Scissors Emoji

  • iOS Use the emoji keyboard (globe icon → smiley)
  • Android Use Gboard's emoji keyboard, or type the emoji's name
  • Windows Win + . opens the emoji picker
  • macOS Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the character viewer
  • Linux Ctrl + Shift + e then codepoint, or use IBus picker
  • Web Paste the character or use an emoji-picker library
  • Slack Type :scissors: (autocompletes to the emoji)
  • Discord Type :scissors: (autocompletes to the emoji)

Scissors Emoji on Different Platforms

How to Use the Scissors Emoji

  • Cut the paper with ✂️.
  • The ✂️ is sharp and ready.
  • Trim the edges using ✂️.

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