✂️

Scissors Emoji ✂️

An open pair of scissors, blades crossed and ready, most often placed next to a dotted line to mean "cut here" on a coupon, form, or ticket. It also carries the blunter reading of cutting something off entirely, a conversation, a subscription, a relationship, snipped clean rather than trimmed down.

What ✂️ means

A widely open metal scissors with a pair of red finger holders and two sharp metallic cutters at the bottom. The ✂️ Scissors emoji signifies the act of cutting through, creating divisions, separating, or even perfecting something by removing the extras or the unnecessary.

How and when to use it

If you're sharing life advice about cutting off unnecessity to someone you care for or sharing a social media post/story with captions or message(s) that resonates with the same, you can use ✂️.
Examples for the previous point: "Please. PLEASE cut off negative energy ✂️" or "There's nothing wrong with cutting yourself some slack by doing yourself the favor of positivity ✂️".
You may use ✂️ even while talking about the art of living minimalistically. Like, "Why don't you cut the corners that you don't need? ✂️" or "Anything that doesn't serve you anymore ought to be out of the picture ✂️".
Generally, ✂️ can be brought into contexts revolving around tailoring, fashion, stitching, sewing, etc.
If you're talking about 'making the cut', you can use ✂️. For example, "If you can't find something tailored for you, you've got to make that cut for yourself ✂️".

Other Names

✂️ A Pair of Scissors
✂️ Red Scissors
✂️ Clippers
✂️ Snippers/Snipping
✂️ Cutting
✂️ Black Scissors

The lowdown

Category: Objects › office
Codepoints: U+2702 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :scissors: GitHub
Keywords: cut, cutting, paper, scissors, tool

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.