Chains
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- Shortcode
:chains:- Unicode
U+26D3- HTML
⛓- CSS
\26D3- JavaScript
"\u{26D3}"- URL
%E2%9B%93%EF%B8%8F
What ⛓️ means
A length of heavy chain. It means being bound, trapped or held back, and in fashion it means chain jewelry.
"Chained to my desk ⛓️" means stuck at work. It shows up in metal and goth aesthetics and in hip-hop talk about gold chains.
It can carry a bondage or kink meaning in adult contexts.
Facts
Chains ⛓️ is an emoji in the objects category, under tool. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). One other emoji uses it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :chains:. People also look for it with words like “chain”.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
- 2023New emoji built from it (Emoji 15.1)⛓️💥
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.