Dagger Emoji

Objects

A sharp, double-edged blade with a short handle and a simple crossguard. It is designed for close-quarters combat or precision cutting, presented here as a standard steel-colored weapon.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent fencing, medieval combat, or general aggression. In professional editing, it is often referred to as an 'obelisk' and serves as a footnote marker in academic or literary texts. It frequently appears alongside ⚔️ or 🛡️ when discussing battle games or historical conflicts.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, the dagger originated as a punctuation mark in medieval manuscripts used to indicate an omission or a specific footnote. It later transitioned into digital interfaces as a graphic representation of a weapon for gaming and messaging apps.

Details

Glyph

🗡

Unicode

U+1F5E1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f5e1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDDE1;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Objects

Subcategory tool

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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