🧷

Safety Pin Emoji 🧷

A closed safety pin, the everyday fix for a torn hem or a loose diaper, long before it got its own emoji in 2018. Two years earlier, wearing an actual one had become a quiet way to signal solidarity with immigrants and minorities after Brexit and the 2016 U.S. election, a meaning it can still carry.

What 🧷 means

A closed safety pin, greyish in color, described with a loop at the bottom and a pressable locking system at the top. Sometimes, this emoji showcases an open safety pin.

The 🧷 Safety Pin emoji represents the tiny pin or clip that comes in handy while fastening fabric. Apart from the everyday usage of a safety pin, this emoji would also suggest a fashion statement.

How and when to use it

Safety pins hold things together. If not rigidly, a little freely. If you're referring to something or someone who fits this description, use 🧷. For example, "He's the kind to hold me whilst giving me the space to hold myself 🧷".
Many clothes, such as sarees, are wearable only with a couple of safety pins to stabilize the style. So, if you're sharing anything related to such clothing, you may add 🧷 into the context.
🧷 is a must while posting or reposting safety pin fashion.
Safety pins that are left open are minimally hazardous. And, so. If you happen to describe something or someone who's like this, feel free to use 🧷. Like, "He doesn't mean too much harm when he opens up about himself 🧷".
Politically, 🧷 symbolizes resistance and solidarity. If you're indicating this political use-case in any framework, use this emoji.

Other Names

🧷 Pin
🧷 Fastening Pin
🧷 Clip
🧷 Buckle
🧷 Grip
🧷 Saree Pin

The lowdown

Category: Objects › household
Codepoints: U+1F9F7
Emoji version: Emoji 11.0
Shortcodes: :safety_pin:
Keywords: diaper, pin, punk, rock, safety

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.