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Crossed Swords Emoji ⚔️

Two swords crossed is the standard battlefield marker on strategy-game maps and in military cartography, a symbol that predates emoji by centuries. Unicode approved it in 2005, among the oldest tool-and-weapon symbols on the keyboard, and it still gets typed for any all-out conflict, a heated group chat included.

What ⚔️ means

A pair of swords, similar to a 🗡️ Dagger in design, kept one in front of the other to form an 'X'. Each sword has a black handle and a long metallic sharp knife.

The ⚔️ Crossed Swords emoji broadly symbolizes fighting or a fight. It signifies skill, bravery, grit, and war too. Hence, this emoji may be the perfect one while asking someone to come at you!

How and when to use it

While posting or reposting informative content about sword-fighting specifically, or just any battle, combat, (even the ones that don't involve bloodshed), you can use ⚔️. Like, "Please attend the battle of the bands! ⚔️" or "I'll call you better only if you can beat me ⚔️".
⚔️ is probably the best emoji description of "having no chill". So, if you're commenting on a post that has no chill, responding to a text, or even posting a picture with a 'no chill' caption, use ⚔️.
You can use ⚔️ even in contexts of strength; being strong (physically and/or mentally), showing strength, etc.
Instances for the previous point - "Have no fear, and have no chill ⚔️" or "Whooaaa. Her moves just have no chill whatsoever! ⚔️".
Even while sharing victorious news from a closely spectated battle, war, competition, etc., you can use ⚔️ - "Love how the red team cutthroat with the blue team! ⚔️" or "Aaaand. WE WON! ⚔️ GET THAT??!".

Other Names

⚔️ Two Swords
⚔️ Crossed Daggers
⚔️ Fighting Swords
⚔️ A Pair of Swords
⚔️ Crossed Blades
⚔️ A Pair of Cutlasses

The lowdown

Category: Objects › tool
Codepoints: U+2694 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :crossed_swords: GitHub
Keywords: crossed, swords, weapon

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.