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🗡️ Dagger
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🗡️ Emoji meaning
That was a dagger to the heart! Attack, defense, medieval, fantasy.
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🗡️ Meaning
Attack or defense! Thrusting weapon with a blade sharpened on both sides. Often in connection with the Middle Ages or fantasy. Someone is sharp sighted or fighting at the sharp end.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Kitchen knife vs dagger; both sharp blades, one domestic, one weapon, visual distinction is small.
Scissors vs dagger; both metallic sharp tools, mis-taps may send a more aggressive-looking tool.
Dagger vs crossed swords; both bladed weapons used for battle or fantasy themes.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Dagger” was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 and added to Emoji 0.7 .
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ dagger
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ knife + weapon
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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