Two interlocking chain links, drawn at a diagonal — that's 🔗, U+1F517, and its job is almost entirely metaphorical. It's the emoji for a hyperlink: "link in bio," "link below," "here's the URL." The picture is a literal chain, but the meaning people load onto it is the web sense of link, the clickable connection between one thing and another.
That doubling is what makes it handy and occasionally ambiguous. Because it depicts actual chain links, it also does duty for connection, partnership, being "linked up," and sometimes literal chains or strength — context decides whether you're pointing at a website or talking about a bond between people. It landed in Unicode 6.0, so support is universal and the rendering is refreshingly consistent: nearly every platform draws the same pair of ovals, usually in a neutral grey or the muted blue-grey of interface chrome.
Worth separating from its lookalikes: this is not the heavier chains emoji, which reads as restraint or imprisonment rather than hyperlinks, and it's not the paperclip, which handles "attachment." When the message is specifically "go here, tap this," the two-link chain is the one that reads instantly — which is why "link in bio" became one of the most-typed phrases on the internet with this exact character standing in for the word.
About Link
Link is the Unicode character 🔗 at codepoint U+1F517 in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Link
To use the Link symbol (🔗) in HTML, insert the
entity 🔗 directly into your markup. The decimal entity 🔗 works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\1F517';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u{1F517}' evaluates to 🔗. In Python source, write '\U0001F517'.
The character encodes to F0 9F 94 97 as UTF-8 bytes and D83D DD17 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 128279.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.