🛡️

🛡️ Shield Emoji

A shield, as blocks swords in close combat. Color and style varies across platforms, but generally depicted in a shape with a metal border and simple pattern.

Commonly used to represent various content concerning battle, defense, security, and protection.

Apple and Microsoft’s designs feature a red and white sawtooth pattern, Facebook and WhatsApp’s blue and white checkers.

May be paired with (or fending off) or . Not to be confused with .

Emoji	🛡️
Unicode Name	Shield
Apple Name	Shield
Also Known As
Codepoints	U+1F6E1, U+FE0F

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Language	Name
Bengali	ঢল
Danish	skjold
German	schutzschild
English	shield
Spanish	escudo
French	bouclier
Hindi	ढल
Italian	scudo
Japanese	盾
Korean	방패
Marathi	ढल
Malay	perisai
Dutch	schild
Norwegian	skjold
Portuguese	escudo
Swedish	sköld
Tamil	கடயம
Telugu	కవచ
Chinese	盾牌