Symbol Cut: Scissors and Cut-Here Lines

Press Copy for ✂️, or take another scissors character, a cut-here line, a coupon frame or a combo.

Symbol Cut: Scissors and Cut-Here Lines

✂️ScissorsU+2702 U+FE0FReady to copy

28 items. Tap one to copy it.

Scissors 5

Cut-here lines 10

Coupon frames 3

Scissors combos 10

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How it works

The symbol cut on every toolbar is a pair of scissors. ✂️ Scissors, U+2702, sits above Copy. Under it are four more scissors characters, cut-here lines for a coupon or a form, coupon frames and combos.

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Five scissors

Unicode has five scissors characters, U+2700 to U+2704, all in the Dingbats block. ✂ is the one with an emoji form. ✄ is the same pair in outline, and ✁ and ✃ each draw one blade heavier. ✀, Black safety scissors, arrived in Unicode 7.0, long after the other four.

Cut-here lines

A cut-here line is a pair of scissors and a row of dashes or dots. Three of the ten need only a keyboard: 8 and an angle bracket draw the scissors. The coupon frames are keyboard characters too, and line up only in a monospaced font.

  • CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files seven emoji under cut, the haircut and the carpentry saw among them. Under cutting it files Scissors alone.
  • The Text style switch, under More options, turns ✂️ into a plain black mark.

Questions and answers

What is the symbol for cut?

Scissors. ✂️ is the emoji, and its plain-text form is U+2702, Black scissors. CLDR files it under cut, cutting, paper and tool, and it is the only emoji filed under cutting.

How do I make a cut-here line?

Copy one. The first has the scissors at the left of a dashed rule. Others put them in the middle or at the right end, swap the dashes for dots, or add the words cut here.

What does >8 mean in a line of dashes?

It is a pair of scissors drawn with two keys, the 8 for the handles. The manual of one version-control program gives -- >8 -- as a scissors line: scissors and perforation marks that ask the reader to cut the message there.

Why does ✀ show as an empty box?

Black safety scissors, U+2700, joined Unicode in version 7.0, while the other four scissors date from 1.1. A font made before then has no drawing for it.

All 28 items

Scissors 5

  • Black safety scissors U+2700 Black safety scissors. Round-tipped scissors, which Unicode pairs with White scissors. Added long after the other four, so a device is more likely to draw it as an empty box. Text, not an emoji. Unicode 7.0.
  • Lower blade scissors U+2703 Lower blade scissors. A pair with the lower blade drawn heavier. Text, not an emoji. Unicode 1.1.
  • Scissors U+2702 U+FE0F. The emoji, and the sign for cut on a toolbar. CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files it under cut, cutting, paper and tool. It has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
  • Upper blade scissors U+2701 Upper blade scissors. A pair with the upper blade drawn heavier. Text, not an emoji. Unicode 1.1.
  • White scissors U+2704 White scissors. The same scissors in outline. Text, not an emoji. Unicode 1.1.

Cut-here lines 10

  • - - - - - - - - - - - ✂ Scissors at the right end
  • - - - - - ✂ - - - - - Scissors in the middle
  • ✂ - - - - - - - - - - - Scissors at the left, dashes
  • ✂ · · · · · · · · · · · Dotted
  • ✂┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ A fine dashed rule with no gaps
  • ✂╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌ A coarse dashed rule with no gaps
  • - - - - - >8 - - - - - Keyboard only, scissors mid-line
  • -- >8 -- The short scissors line a program manual gives
  • 8< - - - - - - - - - - Keyboard only: 8 and < make the scissors
  • ✂ - - - cut here - - - With the words cut here
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Coupon frames 3

  • Coupon to cut out A dashed box, 24 columns wide. Type over YOUR WORDS
  • Cut line down the side A dotted line to cut along, with room for a note
  • Ticket with a tear-off stub A solid ticket with a dashed stub, 26 columns wide

Scissors combos 10

  • Barber shop Barber pole, then scissors: the pole outside and the tool inside.
  • Clipping a coupon Scissors, then label: a price tag to snip out.
  • Craft table Scissors, then crayon, then straight ruler: cut, color, measure.
  • Cut and paste Scissors, then clipboard: the two halves of the keyboard job.
  • Haircut Person getting haircut, then scissors: CLDR files both under cut.
  • News clipping Scissors, then newspaper: a story to keep.
  • Paper craft Scissors, then page facing up: a sheet about to become something else.
  • Ribbon cutting Scissors, then ribbon: an opening day.
  • Sewing kit Scissors, then thread, then sewing needle: cut, thread, stitch.
  • Trimming the garden Scissors, then herb: a snip for the plants.

How this list was compiled: The Scissors emoji, its code points, Emoji version and the emoji in the combos come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); its text form from emoji-variation-sequences.txt; the search words from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml), which file Scissors alone under cutting and scissors, and seven emoji under cut. The five scissors characters, U+2700 to U+2704, their names and block are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), their Unicode versions from DerivedAge.txt (four from 1.1, Black safety scissors from 7.0) and the note that Black safety scissors forms a pair with White scissors from NamesList.txt. The scissors line: the manual page at https://git-scm.com/docs/git-mailinfo, read 2026-10-01, which gives "-- >8 --" as an example and says the line stands for scissors and perforation marks and tells the reader to cut the message there. The lines, the three frames and the combos are this site's own work; every character in them was looked up in UnicodeData.txt. Licence: own work

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