Objects · Emoji 0.6
📎Paperclip Emoji
Generally, it means “attached” or “connected.” People use it to show they’re linking ideas, files, or just wanting to emphasize that two things are related.
The 📎 emoji represents a simple paperclip.
- Unicode
- U+1F4CE
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :paperclip:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📎 Paperclip emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Paperclip emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the paperclip as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Paperclip emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :paperclip:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4CE.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📎 Paperclip emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F4CE when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Paperclip emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the paperclip as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Paperclip emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around paperclip for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 📎 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 📎 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the paperclip lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
📎 vs 🖇️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Paperclip
Code: U+1F4CE · added 2010
Shortcode: :paperclip:
Generally, it means “attached” or “connected.”
Unicode name: Linked Paperclips
Code: U+1F587 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :linked_paperclips:
Usually, it just means “connected” or “linked.”
11 — History
Where the 📎 Paperclip emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F4CE never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
📎 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E730, KDDI au E4A0.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Paperclip was approved as U+1F4CE and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 📎 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ