= rated for violence = hate → 1F52A 🔪 hocho
The dagger emoji is the tiny-but-deadly blade of the emoji world—more dramatic than a butter knife, less chaotic than a broadsword. People drop it to hint at betrayal vibes (“backstab energy”), to add a touch of danger to a roast, or to punctuate a fierce comeback with extra sting. It also shows up in playful melodrama—paired with a skull for “I’m slain” theater-kid energy—or when someone’s serving looks so sharp they could cut glass.
On Apple/iOS, the dagger tilts up-right at a crisp angle, with a gleaming silver blade, a defined central ridge, and a gold crossguard plus pommel around a brown grip; it’s glossy, clean, and very “fantasy RPG prop shop.” That shiny, almost ceremonial styling makes it perfect for D&D rogue moments, cosplay captions, or Assassin’s Creed jokes. In texts and tweets, it can mean “don’t test me,” “I feel low-key betrayed,” or “snip snip, I’m cutting ties”—sometimes sarcastic, sometimes flirty-dangerous in a “you’ve been warned 😉🗡️” way. Cultural echoes hit hard: Shakespeare’s “Is this a dagger…” for dramatic posts, Julius Caesar for backstabbing memes, and general medieval/heroic imagery for gamers and lore nerds.
Used cleverly, it’s less about violence and more about mood—edgy aesthetics, protective energy, or sharpening one’s wit to a point. TL;DR: it’s the punctuation mark for anything sharp, sneaky, or stylishly perilous.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1743 of 2393 |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :dagger: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Dagger Knife |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Rating Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🗡 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🗡 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🗡 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🗡 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f5e1 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F5E1 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128481 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x97 0xA1 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 97 A1 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 227 241 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDDE1 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddde1 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56801 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F5E1 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F5E1 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128481 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F5E1" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x97\xa1" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDDE1" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🗡️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🗡️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🗡 ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🗡 ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f5e1, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F5E1, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128481, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x97 0xA1, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 97 A1, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 227 241, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDDE1, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddde1, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56801, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F5E1 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F5E1, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128481, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F5E1\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x97\xa1\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDDE1\uFE0F" |
