A safety razor, blade visible, the emoji represents shaving as part of a grooming routine. It's used for literal shaving content, and occasionally for a sharper, more menacing edge when the moment calls for something a little dangerous rather than just tidy.
What 🪒 means
A metallic razor with an orangish-brown handle, a double pair of razors at the top budged within a protective frame. Sometimes, this emoji is described as an old-fashioned shaver.
The 🪒 Razor emoji is a reference to the grooming practice of shaving. Given the basic functionality of a razor, this emoji could suggest hair removal, hair growth, regrowth, and the other fashionable shaves too.
How and when to use it
- Firstly, 🪒 is a unisex emoji. If it's shocking, yes, women too grow hair. So, while posting or reposting educative content on grooming irrespective of the sex/gender, you may use 🪒.
- While texting someone to get a shave, sharing grooming pictures, videos of a shave, pictures of a clean shave, or even content on some shaving basics, use 🪒.
- You can also use 🪒 while referring to 'ingrowns' or 'ingrown hair' (the favorite aftermath of shaving or waxing) in any context - "Dude. You know what? Sometimes, you feel like a patch of annoying ingrown hair 🪒" or "There's pretty much no way to escape ingrowns naturally 🪒".
- Contexts of "No Shave November" or "Movember" could have an addition of 🪒 - representing the element of avoidance.
Other Names
- 🪒 Razor Blade
- 🪒 Shaving Stick
- 🪒 Shaving
- 🪒 Shaver
- 🪒 Razor
- 🪒 Shaving Stick
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › household
- Codepoints
U+1FA92- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:razor:- Keywords
- razor, sharp, shave
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🪒 Razor or 🌽 Ear of Corn?