Upper Blade Scissors ✁

U+2701
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Symbol Meaning

A popular icon which is often used for denoting the line of cutting. This symbol schematically depicts a pair of office scissors with a handle of a modern ergonomic shape. They also possess slightly curved blades. The tool is presented in the black colour with its frame painted black. It doesn't have any particular drawings of various details or shadows.

You may come across such a sign on food packages, art materials, in documents (for example, if two samples of a bill are printed on one sheet). U+2701 is often combined with a dotted or dashed line, if the cutting line has a complex configuration or great length.

The symbol “Upper Blade Scissors” is included in the “Miscellaneous” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

Unicode Name Upper Blade Scissors
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Dingbats
Unicode Subblock Miscellaneous
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 2701
Simple case change 2701
Grapheme_Base +
scripts Common
Pattern_Syntax +
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C 81 226 156 129 14851201 11100010 10011100 10000001
UTF-16BE 27 01 39 1 9985 00100111 00000001
UTF-16LE 01 27 1 39 295 00000001 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 01 0 0 39 1 9985 00000000 00000000 00100111 00000001
UTF-32LE 01 27 00 00 1 39 0 0 19333120 00000001 00100111 00000000 00000000

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