How it looks elsewhere
๐ก๏ธ Your device
๐ก๏ธ Typographs
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Shield Means
People reach for ๐ก๏ธ when they mean weapon, shield, security. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Shield is one of the objects emoji, alongside ๐จ ๐ช โ๏ธ โ๏ธ ๐ ๏ธ and 21 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Shield was added in 2014 as part of Unicode 7.0. 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 ๐ก๏ธ is the 2-code-point sequence U+1F6E1 U+FE0F, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :shield:.
How To Use ๐ก๏ธ
- 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 ๐ก๏ธ๐จ๐ช and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :shield: 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.