🪢
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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
🪢
- Represents a knot.
- (Internet slang) Represents rope.
- (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
- (literal, uncommon) Not.
- (euphemistic, rare) Represents suicide.
- 2021 March 23, xloverbo, Twitter:
- He's probably gonna commit 🪢 anyways
- (furry fandom, euphemistic) A knot, slang for the bulbus glandis.