A pointed knife with a steel blade, as used for thrusting in close combat. Generally depicted as double-edged with a black, brown or gold cross-shaped hilt and positioned at 45° angle, often with its tip at the lower left.
May represent knives and other bladed weapons (cf. ⚔️ Crossed Swords) as well as various senses of cutting and stabbing. Often applied to medieval or fantasy content.
Google’s design previously featured an icy-blue blade and sparkles, suggests a dagger elves may wield in fantasy.
May be paired with (or defended by) ?️ Shield. Not to be confused with ? Kitchen Knife.
Dagger was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 under the name “Dagger Knife” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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?️ Dagger knife
?️ Variation selector-16