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

Building Construction

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

The male version of the <a href="/construction-worker/">👷&nbsp;Construction Worker</a> emoji.

Man Construction Worker

The female version of the <a href="/construction-worker/">👷&nbsp;Construction Worker</a> emoji.

Woman Construction Worker

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 generic, high-rise office building. Generally found in cities, and most active during business hours.

The office building shown in Twemoji 2.0 is of <a href="https://foursquare.com/v/twitter-hq/4ee0ecde29c2c6e332924109?openPhotoId=506e210ae4b06f9dbabdd728">Twitter HQ</a> in San Fransisco.

Office Building

A large articulated lorry consisting of a tractor and a trailer connected by a pivoted bar. Most likely hauling stock for different companies and services, such as the items on sale within <a href="/department-store">department stores</a>.

Articulated Lorry

A wide road shown from a first person perspective. Apple&#39;s artwork displays a road sign to Curpertino.

Motorway

A red, octagonal sign, often but not always shown with a white or grey rim. Used in many countries as a stop sign.

Unlike other platforms,&nbsp;Huawei&#39;s design for this emoji displays the word &quot;STOP&quot;.

Octagonal Sign

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 construction helmet, which is worn by the <a href="/construction-worker/" title="👷 Construction Worker">construction worker</a> emoji in some emoji sets.

The cross on the helmet (shown in the Apple&nbsp;version of this emoji) is used in Japan as a safety reminder in&nbsp;<a href="/construction/" title="🚧 Construction Sign">construction</a>&nbsp;zones. It is also commonly seen on the&nbsp;<a href="http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Met">Met</a>&nbsp;helmet in the game&nbsp;Mega Man.

Helmet with White Cross

A triangle or set square, as used by engineers or architects to draw <a href="/straight-ruler/">straight lines</a> at angles. Variously depicted as a metal, wood, or plastic right triangle with length markings, its hypotenuse to the right.

Commonly applied to a range of disciplines, including art, design, building, architecture, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). May also represent various concepts of angles and measurement.

Triangular Ruler

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 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 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 round metal gear with teeth.

Used to talk about tools and engineering (both hardware and software). Also commonly used to indicate settings on user interfaces.&nbsp;May also represent hard work, e.g., grinding in sports.

Samsung&rsquo;s design originally&nbsp;featured a white gear icon on a green square.

Gear

A metal clamp or vice, as screwed to hold or compress materials like wood or metal. Depicted as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-clamp">C-clamp</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-clamp">F-clamp</a>, its screw in various positions.

Commonly used for various content concerning tools, equipment, and technology. May also represent file compression in computer science. An image of a clamp, for example,&nbsp;is featured in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinZip">WinZip</a> icon.

Twitter&rsquo;s clamp is red.&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/clamp/">previously featured</a> a clamp around a cardboard box.

Compression

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

The flag for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;AE&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: United Arab Emirates

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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.

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

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, Roblox, 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.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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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.

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.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

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.

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