U+2704 "✄" White Scissors Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✄
U+2704 "✄" White Scissors is a typographic symbol representing a pair of open scissors with straight blades, distinct from its black counterpart due to its outlined or hollow appearance, which often allows it to blend better with light backgrounds or colored text in digital displays. This glyph is part of the Dingbats block and is commonly used in various contexts to indicate cutting, separating, or editing actions, such as in user interfaces for crop tools or in educational materials. Its design varies slightly across different fonts, but it generally maintains the recognizable shape of scissors, filling a role that balances visual clarity with functional symbolism in written communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2704 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White 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 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2704 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002704 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2704 |
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 |