🏗Building Construction Emoji
It usually means “under construction” or “building. ” People use it to show they're talking about a construction project, a new building, or anything being built.
The 🏗 emoji represents construction.
- Unicode
- U+1F3D7
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :building_construction:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🏗 Building Construction emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Building Construction emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F3D7. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 8.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Building Construction emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :building_construction:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3D7.
How to type the 🏗 Building Construction emoji
No picker to hand? The building construction can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Building Construction emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the building construction as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Building Construction emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around building construction for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🏗, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🏗 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🏗 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3D7, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🏗 vs 🏢 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Building Construction
Code: U+1F3D7 · added 2014
Shortcode: :building_construction:
It usually means “under construction” or “building.
Unicode name: Office Building
Code: U+1F3E2 · added 2010
Shortcode: :office:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🏢 emoji, they’re talking about an office or a business.
Where the 🏗 Building Construction emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the building construction to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F3D7 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Building Construction was approved as U+1F3D7 and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🏗 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.