The divide emoji is the classic ÷ symbol all dressed up for the timeline. On Apple/iOS, it’s a crisp white division sign—two dots with a short bar—centered inside an orange rounded square with a soft gradient, basically a tiny calculator key that graduated glow-up school. Bold and chunky, it sits visually with its math buddies like ➕ and ➖, instantly recognizable in any chat. It screams “math, but make it cute.”
People use ➗ for splitting the bill, calling a 50/50, or divvying up tasks without starting a civil war in the group chat. It also doubles as drama commentary—“the fandom is divided”—or cheeky breakup energy like, “Let’s divide our streaming passwords.” Meme-wise, it fuels ratio jokes, “divide and conquer” to-do lists, and those haunting long-division flashbacks. During Ed Sheeran’s “÷” era, this symbol basically moonlighted as pop-culture shorthand. And yes, it hits extra hard as sarcasm: “We’ll divide the work—you do 90, I’ll do vibes ➗.”
Definition
Learned how to spell Division all too recently. =/
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
707 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:heavy_division_sign:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Heavy Division Sign
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Dingbats
Unicode Range
2700–27BF
Unicode Subcategory
Heavy Variants of Arithmetic Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory
Arithmetic Symbols
Names & Annotations
HEAVY DIVISION SIGN Temporary Notes: disunified from ÷ U+00F7
Symbol Information
U+2797 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-B54
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[÷]
KDDI
#66 割る 「割ru」 U+E554 SJIS-F770 JIS-7751
Softbank
[÷]
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
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)
2797
Formal Unicode Notation
U+2797
Decimal Code Point(s)
10135
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x9E 0x97
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 9E 97
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 236 227
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x2797
UTF-16 Hex
2797
UTF-16 Dec
10135
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x00002797
UTF-32 Hex
2797
UTF-32 Dec
10135
Python Src
u"\u2797"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x9e\x97"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u2797"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
