U+2700 "✀" Black Safety Scissors Unicode Character

U+2700 "✀" Black Safety Scissors is a typographic symbol that depicts a pair of scissors with rounded, blunt tips, designed to represent the child-safe or craft scissors commonly found in homes and classrooms. Unlike standard scissors symbols, the black safety scissors emphasize the absence of sharp points, underscoring themes of safety, non violence, and accessibility. This character is part of the Dingbats block in Unicode, which includes various ornamental and practical symbols, and it is often used in digital communications, instructions, or lists to indicate cutting, crafting, or the need for careful, harmless handling.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2700
Version Added	7.0
Name	Black Safety Scissors
Block	Dingbats
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	✀
HTML Hex Encoding	✀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0x9C 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2700
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002700
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2700

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
Pattern Syntax	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other