Scissors

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Shortcode: :scissors:
Unicode: U+2702
HTML: ✂
CSS: \2702
JavaScript: "\u{2702}"
URL: %E2%9C%82%EF%B8%8F

What ✂️ means

A pair of scissors. It stands for cutting, crafts, haircuts and editing.

People use it for haircut appointments, crafts, coupons and “cut here” lines. Figuratively it means cutting something out, like trimming a video or cutting someone off.

In some contexts it is a sexual reference to “scissoring” between women.

Facts

Scissors ✂️ is an emoji in the objects category, under office. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :scissors:. People also look for it with words like “cut”, “cutting”, “paper”, or “tool”.