Black Safety Scissors ✀
Symbol Meaning
The symbol marked U+2700 depicts an open pair of scissors of the classic shape. The tool has identical round hands and safe blades with the curved points. The schematic drawing is carried out using the black line and the filled background.
The icon of black safety scissors is often applied to denote the cutting line on documents and packages. It may be utilized in decoration and editing, for example, in papers, promotion materials, hairdresser's sign, garment of sewing workshops, and stationery markets. In addition, you can often see black safety scissors in various editing programmes, where they mark the 'cut' button.
It's not the only icon of scissors in Unicode. There are others. For instance, emoji with red handles and grey blades.
The symbol “Black Safety Scissors” is included in the “Miscellaneous” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 7.0 in 2014.
| Unicode Name | Black Safety Scissors |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Miscellaneous |
| Unicode Version | 7.0 (2014) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2700 |
| Simple case change | 2700 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C 80 | 226 156 128 | 14851200 | 11100010 10011100 10000000 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 00 | 39 0 | 9984 | 00100111 00000000 |
| UTF-16LE | 00 27 | 0 39 | 39 | 00000000 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 00 | 0 0 39 0 | 9984 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00000000 |
| UTF-32LE | 00 27 00 00 | 0 39 0 0 | 2555904 | 00000000 00100111 00000000 00000000 |