Shield
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- Shortcode
:shield:- Unicode
U+1F6E1- HTML
🛡- CSS
\1F6E1- JavaScript
"\u{1F6E1}"- URL
%F0%9F%9B%A1%EF%B8%8F
What ๐ก๏ธ means
A medieval shield. It means protection and defense, keeping someone or something safe.
Security teams and VPN or antivirus posts use it for protection. Gamers use it for tank and defense roles. A friend sends ๐ก๏ธ to say they have your back.
Facts
Shield ๐ก๏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 :shield:. People also look for it with words like โweaponโ.
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.