🧱 Brick

A brick or bricks used in the construction of a house, wall, or as a single object. May be used as a verb “to brick” which is to “to render (an electronic device, such as a smartphone) nonfunctional” according to Meriam-Webster.

Brick was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 in 2018.

🚩 New in 2018: requires the latest software updates.