🗡️

Dagger Emoji 🗡️

This blade, officially "dagger knife" in Unicode's naming, is a separate character from the dagger footnote mark (†) used in dense academic text. It's typed for a literal weapon in a story or game, and, no less readily, for the idiom "backstabbing," someone turning on a friend.

What 🗡️ means

A bottom-right facing sword with a short black handle designed with three round metallic structures around it, while holding a sharp metal knife with a pointy tip.

The 🗡️ Dagger emoji represents a dagger, a sword, and a short sword too. It could signify knife fighting, weaponry, threatening or threats, danger, self-protection, or even just knife throwing.

How and when to use it

A dagger symbolizes a threat. So, if you're playfully threatening someone, talking about a real threat, or even reposting a sarcastic threat or a genuine one, use 🗡️.
Use 🗡️ in the contexts of protection; self and that of others. Like, "I'd kill 🗡️ for what I believe is right" or "Protect the ones you love with all you have 🗡️".
Since 🗡️ also refers to 'stabbing', it can be used while calling out all those filthy backstabbers too - "I know who did what 🗡️" or "It's probably the worst thing you could do to a friend 🗡️".
🗡️ would represent a samurai sword and any other type of sword as well. Hence, this emoji would fit just fine into related contexts. For example, "Check out this 500 years old samurai sword! 🗡️".
If you're posting interesting content on wars, fighting, war zones, etc, you may consider 🗡️ in the caption; especially if the fight was ancient or just involved daggers.

Other Names

🗡️ Sword
🗡️ Fighting Sword
🗡️ Samurai Sword
🗡️ Short Sword
🗡️ Knife Weapon
🗡️ Dagger Knife
🗡️ Switchblade
🗡️ Bayonet
🗡️ Blade
🗡️ Cutlass (quite intense, I know)

The lowdown

Category: Objects › tool
Codepoints: U+1F5E1 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :dagger: GitHub
Keywords: dagger, knife, 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.