U+1F5E1 "🗡" Dagger Knife Unicode Character

U+1F5E1 "🗡" Dagger Knife is a pictographic symbol representing a short, pointed blade, often used to denote a weapon, danger, stabbing, or surgical precision in digital communication. Originally added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, it features a metallic hilt or guard, typically depicted in a stylized, sharp-edged design. This character is frequently employed in social media, messaging apps, and emoji keyboards to convey concepts of aggression, secrecy, betrayal, or medieval imagery, though it is less common than the simpler knife emoji. Its inclusion highlights Unicode's effort to represent a wide range of objects and cultural symbols for global text and iconography use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F5E1
Version Added	7.0
Name	Dagger Knife
Block	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	🗡
HTML Hex Encoding	🗡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9F 0x97 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDDE1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F5E1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udde1

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other
Emoji	Yes
Extended Pictographic	Yes