Broken chain
Emoji 15.1 ยท Objects ยท :broken_chain:
Also known as: break, breaking, broken, chain, cuffs, freedom
How it looks elsewhere
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Broken chain Means
People reach for โ๏ธโ๐ฅ when they mean break, breaking, broken, chain, cuffs and similar ideas. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Broken chain is one of the objects emoji, alongside ๐จ ๐ช โ๏ธ โ๏ธ ๐ ๏ธ and 21 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Broken chain was added in 2023 as part of Emoji 15.1. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood โ๏ธโ๐ฅ is the 4-code-point sequence U+26D3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F4A5, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :broken_chain:.
How To Use โ๏ธโ๐ฅ
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like โ๏ธโ๐ฅ๐จ๐ช and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :broken_chain: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.