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Flags

A pickaxe, a tool with a curved spike for breaking up rocks in mining. Generally depicted with a metal head and wooden handle, positioned at a 45&deg; angle with the head at the upper left.

May be used for various content concerning building, construction, digging, mining, or rock climbing.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/hammer/">🔨&nbsp;Hammer</a> or <a href="/axe/">Axe</a>.

Pick

A claw hammer, as used for driving or removing nails. Generally depicted with a metal head and wooden&nbsp;handle, positioned at a 45&deg; angle with the head at the upper left.

Commonly used for content concerning tools, building, and construction as well as various senses of breaking or smashing. May also represent hard work or be applied to hammer-related expressions, e.g., nailed it.

<a href="/apple/ios-5.1/hammer/">Apple</a> and <a href="/facebook/1.0/hammer/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> designs previously displayed a gavel, <a href="/softbank/2006/hammer/">Softbank&rsquo;s</a> a mallet. Not to be confused with <a href="/pick/">⛏️&nbsp;Pick</a> or <a href="/axe/">🪓&nbsp;Axe</a>.

Hammer

A sign used to indicate roadwork or <a href="/construction-worker/" title="👷 Construction Worker">construction</a>. Generally shown as yellow and black diagonal stripes, and often used to physically block access to a road or area. May be used to imply a website or project&nbsp;in progress or under construction.

Construction Sign

An orange safety vest with reflective lines across the chest and&nbsp;over the shoulders.

Used in the <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ sequence</a> <a href="/service-dog/">🐕&zwj;🦺 Service Dog</a>, which was approved at the same time.&nbsp;A safety vest can also be seen in the designs of <a href="/construction-worker/">👷 Construction Worker</a> on multiple&nbsp;platforms.

Safety Vest

A hammer and pick, as used for breaking up rocks in mining, crossed in an X shape. Generally depicted as metal, mallet- and chisel-styled hammers with wooden handles. The heads of the tools face up, with the pick usually at the right. Often used for various content concerning tools, building, and construction.

Facebook implements the same designs as for its <a href="/hammer/">🔨&nbsp;Hammer</a> and <a href="/pick/">⛏️&nbsp;Pick</a>. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-2.0/">previously featured</a> stylized, white tools on a green square, as a sign or icon of a mine.

Hammer and Pick

A hammer and wrench, as kept in a <a href="/toolbox/">toolbox</a>, crossed in an X shape. Depicted with metal tools facing up, the hammer positioned at the upper left. Most vendors implement the same design as for their <a href="/hammer/">🔨&nbsp;Hammer</a> and <a href="/wrench/">🔧&nbsp;Wrench</a>.

Commonly used for various content concerning tools, building, construction, and work, both manual and digital.

Hammer and Wrench

A metal wrench (spanner), as used for turning <a href="/nut-and-bolt/">nuts and bolts</a>. Depicted with two open, crescent-shaped ends or one open end and a closed, ring-shaped end. Generally positioned at a 45&deg; angle.

Commonly used for various content concerning tools, building, maintenance, and skilled trades like car mechanics and plumbing.

Wrench

A metal bolt with a nut threaded around it, as by a <a href="/wrench/">wrench</a>. Often positioned at a 45&deg; angle, the head of the bolt at the upper left. Commonly used for various content concerning tools, building, and construction. May also be used for other hardware, including screws.

Apple&rsquo;s bolt <a href="/apple/ios-9.0/nut-and-bolt/">previously resembled</a>&nbsp;a screw, <a href="/google/android-7.0/nut-and-bolt/">Google&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;a dumbbell; Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/nut-and-bolt/">previously featured</a> the nut and bolt separately.

Nut and Bolt

A jewel or gem, as set into a <a href="/ring/">ring</a>. Depicted in the shape of a classic diamond but in the bright blue color of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl#Aquamarine_and_maxixe">aquamarine</a>.

Commonly used for various content concerning jewelry, as upon an engagement or <a href="/wedding-marriage/">marriage</a>. May also convey various literal and figurative senses of beauty, wealth, sophistication, preciousness, and sparkling.

Gem Stone

A rock climber, shown climbing up a rock formation. Some platforms show the climber with a helmet&nbsp;and/or rope. The Emojipedia Sample image was created with assistance from&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/846439179777163264">World Champion Rock Climber Sasha DiGiulian</a>.

Variations exist for&nbsp;<a href="/woman-climbing/">🧗&zwj;♀️&nbsp;Woman Climbing</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/man-climbing/">🧗&zwj;♂️&nbsp;Man Climbing</a>.

Person Climbing

A construction worker wearing a hard-hat (safety helmet). Has a high visibility vest or <a href="/hammer/" title="🔨 Hammer">hammer</a> in some variations.

Some platforms display a green cross on the <a href="/rescue-workers-helmet/" title="⛑ Helmet With White Cross">helmet</a> which is used in Japan as a safety reminder in <a href="/construction/" title="🚧 Construction Sign">construction</a> zones. It is also commonly seen on the <a href="http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Met">Met</a>&nbsp;helmet in the game&nbsp;Mega Man.

Construction Worker

A construction site generally depicted as a tower crane shown lifting steel or other building materials.

Building Construction

An axe with a wooden handle and a metal blade. On many platforms the blade is red, like a fire axe.

A red box for holding and transporting tools, such as a <a href="/hammer/">hammer</a> and <a href="/wrench/">wrench</a>. Generally depicted as latched shut with silver hardware and a black handle.

Commonly used for literal or metaphorical tools, toolkits, and building.

WhatsApp&#39;s design includes a hammer in front. Google&rsquo;s design was <a href="/google/android-9.0/toolbox/">previously shown</a> as open with two wrenches and a pair of pliers.

Toolbox

A red brick or bricks. Depicted in a loose stack, a single object with holes, or as built into wall, as of a <a href="/house/">house</a>, <a href="/school/">school</a>, or other structure.

Commonly used for various content concerning building and construction. May also be used for figurative bricks, e.g., slang brick, &ldquo;extremely cold (weather).&rdquo;

Brick

A pointed knife with a steel blade, as used for thrusting in close combat. Generally depicted as double-edged with a black, brown or gold&nbsp;cross-shaped hilt and positioned at 45&deg; angle, often with its tip at the lower left.

May represent knives and other bladed weapons (cf. <a href="/crossed-swords/">⚔️&nbsp;Crossed Swords</a>) as well as various senses of cutting and stabbing. Often applied to medieval or fantasy content.

Google&rsquo;s design&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-9.0/dagger/">previously</a> featured&nbsp;an icy-blue blade and <a href="/sparkles/">sparkles</a>, suggests a dagger <a href="/elf/">elves</a> may wield in fantasy.

May be paired with (or defended by) <a href="/shield/">🛡️&nbsp;Shield</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/kitchen-knife/">🔪&nbsp;Kitchen Knife</a>.

Dagger Knife

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai">moai</a>, one of the famed, giant stone statues of human figures&nbsp;on Easter Island. Depicted as a gray&nbsp;stone carving of a stylized human head with a prominent brow and nose, most often facing left.

Sometimes used for various idiosyncratic purposes, such as conveying a stoic, deadpan, or silly expression.

Its official Unicode name of Moyai&nbsp;and inclusion in early Japanese emoji sets, such as from au by KDDI, suggest&nbsp;the emoji may represent the <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Attraction_Review-g1066456-d1953259-Reviews-Moyai_Statue-Shibuya_Tokyo_Tokyo_Prefecture_Kanto.html">Moyai Statue</a> near Shibuya Station in Tokyo, Japan; previous designs from <a href="/google/android-4.3/moai/">Google</a> and <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.0/moai/">Microsoft</a>&nbsp;resemble the Tokyo statue. Other Tokyo landmarks are represented in&nbsp;<a href="/tokyo-tower/">🗼&nbsp;Tokyo Tower</a> and, formerly, <a href="/shibuya/">Shibuya 109</a>.

Moyai

A silver Phillips-head or slotted-head screwdriver with a colorful handle. Most platforms show a red handle, though Apple&#39;s design has a green handle. Used to represent construction, building, carpentry, renovation, or tools in general.

Sometimes used in phrases with &#39;screw&#39; in them like&nbsp;screw you or&nbsp;have a screw loose. Can also be used in sexual contexts due to the informal meaning of &#39;screw&#39;: &quot;to have sex.&quot;

Screwdriver

A long silver saw with a wooden handle. Used to represent construction, carpentry, renovation, or tools in general.

Carpentry Saw

The flag for Burundi, which may show as the letters&nbsp;BI&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Burundi

The flag for Benin, which may show as the letters&nbsp;BJ&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Benin

The flag for Botswana, which may show as the letters&nbsp;BW&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Botswana

The flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile">Chile</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;CL&nbsp;on some platforms.

Can occasionally be confused for a <a href="/flag-for-texas-ustx">Flag for Texas</a> emoji, which does not have broad cross-platform emoji support.

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Flag: Chile

The flag for Gabon, which may show as the letters&nbsp;GA&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Gabon

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Emojipedia

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

A licensable emoji design set.

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An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

Unicode 5.2&nbsp;pre-dated emoji inclusion in Unicode by one&nbsp;year, and included many characters primarily sourced from the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07391-n3341.pdf">ARIB set of Japanese broadcasting symbols</a>.

The following characters were among those added to Unicode in 2009, several of which were given&nbsp;emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

Emojis from Microsoft are&nbsp;supported on PCs and tablets&nbsp;running Windows 11, Windows 10, as well as Xbox. There were also available on Windows phones prior to them being&nbsp;discontinued. These are provided by the Segoe UI Emoji font, although some applications continue to show black and white emojis from an earlier release.

As of the <a href="/microsoft/windows-11-november-2021-update/">Windows 11&nbsp;November 2021 </a>update, the platform includes the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-fluent-emoji-designs-from-microsoft/">new Fluent emoji design set</a>&nbsp;that was first previewed ahead of 2021&#39;s <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a>. Windows 10&#39;s last emoji update was the&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10-may-2019-update/">May 2019 Update</a>, which supported emoji from up to early 2019&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>.

Note: <a href="https://emojipedia.org/microsoft-teams/">Microsoft Teams </a>and <a href="/skype/">Skype</a> use&nbsp;a different emoticon set with an alternative animated design.

Emojis from Microsoft including Windows 11 Fluent Emoji Designs and Windows 10 Segoe UI Emoji.

⛏️ Pick on Microsoft Windows 8.0

⛏️ Pick on Microsoft Windows 8.0

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