Clamp
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- Shortcode
:clamp:- Unicode
U+1F5DC- HTML
🗜- CSS
\1F5DC- JavaScript
"\u{1F5DC}"- URL
%F0%9F%97%9C%EF%B8%8F
What ๐๏ธ means
A screw clamp, the vise-like tool that squeezes things together. It means pressure, compression and holding tight.
Woodworkers use it literally for gluing up parts. Figuratively it can mean feeling squeezed by a deadline or compressing a file. It is uncommon in everyday chat.
Facts
Clamp ๐๏ธ 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). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :clamp:. People also look for it with words like โcompressโ, โtoolโ, or โviceโ.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
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.