U+2701 "✁" Upper Blade Scissors Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✁
U+2701 "✁" Upper Blade Scissors is a typographic symbol representing the single top half of a pair of scissors, specifically the pivoting blade with a finger hole, while the lower blade is absent. It belongs to the Dingbats block, introduced in Unicode 1.1, and is often used in design, media, or crafting contexts to indicate a cutting point or a shared edge, rather than acting as a functional emoji. This character can also appear in printed materials as a cut mark or in lists to denote a division, and it has a complementary counterpart, U+2702 "✂" (Black Scissors), which shows the complete tool.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2701 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Upper Blade 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 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2701 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002701 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2701 |
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 |