✀ Black Safety Scissors U+2700

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Decimal / Nº
9984
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character « », officially named Black Safety Scissors, was introduced in Unicode version 7.0. It is part of the Dingbats block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, the U+2700 character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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Character Copied!
9984 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 9C 80 Copied!
UTF-16 27 00 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 27 00 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%9C%80 Copied!
HTML hex reference ✀ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2700' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2700 Copied!
C and C++ \u2700 Copied!
C# \u2700 Copied!
CSS \002700 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9984) Copied!
Go \u2700 Copied!
JavaScript \u2700 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2700} Copied!
JSON \u2700 Copied!
Java \u2700 Copied!
Lua \u{2700} Copied!
Matlab char(9984) Copied!
Perl \x{2700} Copied!
PHP \u{2700} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2700' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2700} Copied!
Python \u2700 Copied!
Ruby \u{2700} Copied!
Rust \u{2700} Copied!