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📎Paperclip Emoji
The paperclip emoji 📎 carries the codepoint U+1F4CE and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Objects → Office Supplies.
What 📎 paperclip means
Work admin rendered in emoji: folders, calendars, clipboards and stationery. 📈 and 📉 escaped the office long ago and now caption anything trending up or down, from share prices to a person's mood across a week. 📌 and 📍 mean pinned and located, 📅 sets a date, and 🗑️ is how people discard an idea, a take or an ex without spelling it out.
Unicode tags this one paperclip and files it under Objects → Office Supplies.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4CE | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📎 | |
| HTML decimal | 📎 | |
| CSS | \1F4CE | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4CE} | |
| Python | \U0001F4CE | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCCE | |
| Rust | \u{1f4ce} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4CE} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4CE} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%8E | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 8E | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCCE | |
| Base64 | 8J+Tjg== | |
| Decimal | 128206 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- paperclip
How to type 📎
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “paperclip”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “paperclip”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4ceand 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 📎 paperclip emoji mean?+
📎 is the paperclip emoji, tagged paperclip. Work admin rendered in emoji: folders, calendars, clipboards and stationery. 📈 and 📉 escaped the office long ago and now caption anything trending up or down, from share prices to a person's mood across a week. 📌 and 📍 mean pinned and located, 📅 sets a date, and 🗑️ is how people discard an idea, a take or an ex without spelling it out.
What is the Unicode code for 📎?+
paperclip is U+1F4CE. In HTML that is 📎, in CSS \1F4CE, and in JavaScript \u{1F4CE}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📎 emoji added?+
paperclip got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Office Supplies in Objects.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 📎 paperclip.