paperclip Emoji

The paperclip emoji represents an everyday object, commonly used literally when referring to that specific item in conversation, or as a quick visual bullet-point/icon in lists, status updates, and notes.

Category context: The Objects category is a broad collection of everyday items — electronics, tools, household items, clothing, and more — used to add concrete, literal visual references to conversations about daily life and work.

Cataloged under Office within the Objects category, paperclip is the 191st of 266 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 0.6 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F4CE.

💡 Good to know: Technology and device emoji in this category are updated periodically to reflect current device designs, though rendering can lag behind the latest real-world product designs.