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Trade Mark Emoji ™️

Two small letters, TM, attached to a brand name, logo, or slogan to claim it as a trademark with no registration behind it yet. Anyone can use ™ the moment they start using a mark in commerce; it's public notice, not the legal guarantee ® carries once a trademark office signs off. The opening move, not the finished one.

What ™️ means

A pair of grey capitalized 'T' and 'M' placed next to each other. The ™️ Trade Mark emoji represents the pathway to being ®️ Registered. It signifies the stage of being unofficial, locally recognized, and yet in the making.

How and when to use it

As mentioned in the previous section, ™️ indicates a local brand. So, if you're promoting a startup brand, an initiation, or even trying to buy an audience for a small business either you or someone you know started, you could tag this emoji in those contexts.
Speaking of small businesses, ™️ can be the emoji for the phrase and the ideology of "starting small". For example, "The biggest mountains were only moved by picking the smallest rocks first ™️".
Starting small, or starting something from scratch is not only an abundant source of knowledge and experience, but it's also a sign of passion and humbleness. Like, "Branch out. But always be grateful to your roots. They help you stay grounded ™️".
A brand is something that's started as a statement, as something new, original, and unique. So, if you too are the kind to have those pair of 'businessy' eyes, you could use ™️ while talking about uniqueness and authenticity.
An example for the previous point - "Sure there are a million who do the same thing you do. But, only you have that unique spark, much like the other million unique sparks ™️".

Other Names

™️ Trade Mark Symbol
™️ Unofficial Brand
™️ Brand Logo/Branded
™️ TM
™️ Trade Mark Sign
™️ Logo
™️ Unregistered Logo/Brand

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › other-symbol
Codepoints: U+2122 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :tm: GitHub
Keywords: mark, TM, trade, trademark

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.