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🗡️Dagger Emoji
Tagged knife, weapon, 🗡️ dagger sits in Unicode's Tools group inside Objects. It was introduced in Unicode 7.0 (2014) at U+1F5E1 U+FE0F.
What 🗡️ dagger 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 knife, weapon and files it under Objects → Tools.
Copy variants
dagger 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+1F5E1dagger
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F5E1 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🗡️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🗡️ | |
| CSS | \1F5E1\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F5E1}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F5E1\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDDE1\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f5e1}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F5E1}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F5E1}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%97%A1%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 97 A1 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DDE1 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Xoe+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128481 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
- knife
- weapon
How to type 🗡️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “dagger”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “knife”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f5e1and 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 🗡️ dagger emoji mean?+
🗡️ is the dagger emoji, tagged knife, weapon. 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 🗡️?+
dagger is U+1F5E1 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🗡️, in CSS \1F5E1\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F5E1}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🗡️ emoji added?+
dagger 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 🗡️ dagger.