broken chain

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Tool · Emoji 15.1

Keywords

About this character

broken chain belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+26D3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F4A5. It was added in Unicode 15.1.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+26D3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F4A5
Hex: 26D3 FE0F 200D 1F4A5
Decimal: 9939 65039 8205 128165
HTML: ⛓️‍💥
CSS: \26D3 \FE0F \200D \1F4A5
JavaScript: \u26D3\uFE0F\u200D\u{1F4A5}
Python: \u26D3\uFE0F\u200D\U0001F4A5
UTF-8: E2 9B 93 EF B8 8F E2 80 8D F0 9F 92 A5

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.