The trade mark emoji is the tiny but mighty “™” you slap on a name when you’re feeling very Official About It. In real life, it signals a claimed (but not necessarily registered) trademark—think logos, product names, and that catchphrase you swear you coined before it was cool. Online, it’s a go-to for sarcasm and meme-y branding: Chaos™, Main Character Energy™, Hot Take™, or even Vibe™—because everything sounds fancier with legal cosplay. It can read as confident, tongue‑in‑cheek, or delightfully extra, like a mini suit-and-tie for any word.
On Apple devices, the emoji appears as two small raised capitals—TM—clean and monochrome, with a crisp sans‑serif vibe, floating just above the baseline without a box or flourish. It’s easy to spot as that petite superscript in the top‑right of whatever you’re “branding,” and it plays well in captions, bios, and product mockups. People use it to joke about ownership (“That’s my signature move™”), to add faux professionalism to hobbies, and to roast corporate-speak with a wink. Pro tip: ™ is the casual claim; ® is the fully registered big sibling—so the sarcasm hits different depending on which you drop.
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Put this at the end of your work and nobody will be able to use it without your explicit permission.
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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.
