🪢

Text style	Emoji style
🪢︎	🪢️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
🪢 U+1FAA2, 🪢 KNOT ← 🪡 [U+1FAA1] Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A 🪣 → [U+1FAA3]

Translingual

Description

Depiction of a knot. In its emoji style, most designs are generally brightly-coloured and show either a square knot, figure-eight knot, or a carrick bend.

Etymology

Sense 2 is derived from the absence of an emoji or Unicode character for a rope; rather, this symbol specifically represents a knot.

Symbol

🪢

2. Represents a knot.
4. (Internet slang) Represents rope.
6. (Internet slang) (BDSM, metonymically) Represents bondage.

Further reading

• “🪢 Knot”, in Emojipedia, 2013–present.

English

Etymology

Sense 1 and sense 3 are puns based on their similar pronunciations. Sense 2 is a metonym derived from the use of rope as a method of suicide; compare the verb rope (“to commit suicide, particularly by hanging”).

Symbol

🪢 (Internet slang)

2. (literal, uncommon) Not.
4. (euphemistic, rare) Represents suicide.
   • 2021 March 23, xloverbo, Twitter‎^[1]:

     He's probably gonna commit 🪢 anyways

   • 2022 September 29, usernotdeadyet, Twitter‎^[2]:

     When the depression is getting worse and school is getting harder 🪢

   • 2023 September 19, Zackdahellhound, Twitter‎^[3]:

     Quite literally there was a 14 year old furry who 🪢 live on insta(or TikTok can't remember) herself cuz she was being told to ☠️ herself

6. (furry fandom, euphemistic) A knot, slang for the bulbus glandis.