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🗜️Clamp Emoji
🗜️ clamp is encoded at U+1F5DC U+FE0F and shipped with Unicode 7.0 (2014). Unicode files it under Objects → Tools, alongside 26 related emojis.
What 🗜️ clamp means
Building, fixing and the general language of effort, plus a few weapons carried over from older icon sets. 🔨 and 🛠️ mark work in progress, ⚙️ stands for systems and settings, and ⚖️ appears in arguments about law and fairness. Emoji 15.1 added the broken chain ⛓️💥 in 2023, formed by joining the existing chains to the collision symbol, and it reads as breaking free.
Unicode tags this one compress, tool and vice and files it under Objects → Tools.
Copy variants
clamp carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🗜️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🗜U+1F5DCclamp
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F5DC U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🗜️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🗜️ | |
| CSS | \1F5DC\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F5DC}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F5DC\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDDDC\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f5dc}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F5DC}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F5DC}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%97%9C%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 97 9C EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DDDC FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+XnO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128476 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
- compress
- tool
- vice
Appears in these collections
How to type 🗜️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “clamp”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “compress”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f5dcand Enter. - HTML — paste
🗜️.
How 🗜️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🗜️Apple
- 🗜️Segoe
- 🗜️Noto
- 🗜️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🗜️ clamp emoji mean?+
🗜️ is the clamp emoji, tagged compress, tool and vice. Building, fixing and the general language of effort, plus a few weapons carried over from older icon sets. 🔨 and 🛠️ mark work in progress, ⚙️ stands for systems and settings, and ⚖️ appears in arguments about law and fairness. Emoji 15.1 added the broken chain ⛓️💥 in 2023, formed by joining the existing chains to the collision symbol, and it reads as breaking free.
What is the Unicode code for 🗜️?+
clamp is U+1F5DC U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🗜️, in CSS \1F5DC\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F5DC}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🗜️ emoji added?+
clamp got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Tools in Objects.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🗜️ clamp.