Try Knot emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Knot emoji mean?
A knot of rope, the rope emoji.
Plain and a little symbolic. Tying the knot gives it a wedding meaning.
How to use 🪢 naturally
Tying the knot, sailing, climbing and complicated situations.
Object emoji usually point to an activity or topic rather than an emotion. They work well as labels in lists, captions and announcements, where the image makes the subject easy to scan.
From standard to slang
The history of 🪢
- 2020
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Knot was first defined as emoji in Emoji 13.0, dated 2020. A full release across faces, animals, food and objects.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2020, a length of rope in a simple knot. It covers rope, sailing and the idiom about getting married.
- Today
How its use evolved
Tying the knot, sailing, climbing and complicated situations.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🪢 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Tying the knot in June 🪢
Climbing gear packed 🪢
This situation is a mess 🪢
When to use it
Using 🪢 clearly
Tying the knot, sailing, climbing and complicated situations. It lands as rope emoji or knot emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the knot emoji
What does 🪢 mean in a text message?
A knot of rope, the rope emoji. Plain and a little symbolic. Tying the knot gives it a wedding meaning.
Is 🪢 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are rope emoji, knot emoji, 🪢 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🪢 look different on another device?
U+1FAA2 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the knot emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🪢 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the knot emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🪢 as emoji in Emoji 13.0, dated 2020. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🪢 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1FAA2 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🪢 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🪢 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1FAA2 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAA2} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AA%A2 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FAA2
- Category
- Objects & Tech
- Also known as
- rope emojiknot emoji🪢 meaning
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