🖇️

Linked Paperclips Emoji 🖇️

Two paperclips hooked through each other, rather than the single clip 📎 Paperclip shows. The linked look suggests things joined together rather than one thing held shut, though it's rarer in the wild — mostly standing for an attachment in older software interfaces or, more loosely, for two things, files, ideas, people, linked in a way that's still easy to pull apart.

What 🖇️ means

A pair of 📎 Paperclips intertwined at the top. Sometimes, this emoji is shown with three paperclips. The 🖇️ Linked Paperclips emoji signifies the act of interlinking or linking two or more things. It could also suggest a 'connection', 'joining the dots', or even making sense of things.

How and when to use it

If you're talking about something that's amiss, you can use 🖇️. For example, "There ought to be a missing link somewhere! 🖇️ It's too good to be true otherwise".
You can also use 🖇️ to link things or even people together. Like, "I think he knows her through his office colleagues 🖇️" or "If you put two and two together, you'd know 🖇️".
Since two paperclips are linked, 🖇️ may also symbolize commonality. For instance, "I think the best thing that links us is music 🖇️" or "Reading is one thing that can never keep us apart 🖇️. Ironic, but true".
Even while referring to 'connections', you can use 🖇️; it can be from a very straightforward, literal perspective and also a metaphorical or deep one - "You don't always see each other but you somehow always know they're out there somewhere 🖇️".

Other Names

🖇️ Paperclips
🖇️ Interlinking
🖇️ Linking
🖇️ Connections
🖇️ Paperclip Chain
🖇️ Stationery

The lowdown

Category: Objects › office
Codepoints: U+1F587 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :paperclips: GitHub
Keywords: link, linked, paperclip, paperclips

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.