🔗

Link Emoji 🔗

A single chain link is the internet's hyperlink icon, the same glyph browsers and apps use for "copy link" buttons everywhere. Approved by Unicode in 2010 under the plain name "link symbol," it's typed to mean a URL is coming, or more loosely, that two things or people are connected.

What 🔗 means

A pair of slightly rectangular metal links, rounded on all sides, and interlinked at the center. The 🔗 Link emoji symbolizes connection, togetherness, a network, and a sense of being attached.

How and when to use it

A link would signify a part of a whole or the importance of the part in itself. Hence, if you're talking about this metaphorical aspect, you can use 🔗. Like, "Nature creates unity even in parts of the whole 🔗".
In a virtual framework, 🔗 would represent a copyable link or even an un-copyable one; like an informative hyperlink. So, if you're sharing such a link on any platform, you can use 🔗 to suggest the same.
Speaking of copyable links, 🔗 can also signify a sense of copying; euphemistically meaning 'matching', 'twinning', etc. Like, "Got our first ever couple rings! 🔗" or "Hey. We SHOULD get a twinning tattoo 🔗".
Basing a use-case on 'in-linking', 🔗 can be brought into the literal and figurative interpretations of the same. For instance, "Try and add as many in-links as possible 🔗" or "You don't always need further background info. Sometimes, you got to take that gut instinct FR🔗".

Other Names

🔗 Metal Link
🔗 In Link
🔗 Chain
🔗 Hyperlink
🔗 Copyable Link
🔗 Website Link
🔗 Linked Chain
🔗 Link Symbol

The lowdown

Category: Objects › tool
Codepoints: U+1F517
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :link:
Keywords: link, links

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.