Lower Blade Scissors is the Unicode character ✃ at codepoint U+2703 in the Dingbats block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Lower Blade Scissors
To use the Lower Blade Scissors 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: '\2703';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2703' evaluates to ✃. In Python source, write '\u2703'.
The character encodes to E2 9C 83 as UTF-8 bytes and 2703 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9987.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.