Paperclip emoji meaning

The paperclip emoji represents a small metal tool designed to hold pieces of paper together. It is shaped like a loop and is often used in offices, schools, and workplaces for organizing documents. This emoji is commonly associated with ideas like attachment, organization, or tasks related to office and administrative work. It is also sometimes used to symbolize connections or linking things together, much like what a paperclip does with papers.

The paperclip emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026