🏭Factory Emoji
Generally, it just means a factory or industrial setting. People use it to express a connection to manufacturing or a discussion about industry.
The 🏭 emoji represents a factory.
- Unicode
- U+1F3ED
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :factory:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🏭 Factory emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 1 of them.
Factory emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F3ED — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your factory looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
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.
Factory emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :factory:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F3ED.
How to type the 🏭 Factory emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Factory emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Factory emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around factory 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🏭 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3ED, 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: Factory
Code: U+1F3ED · added 2010
Shortcode: :factory:
Generally, it just means a factory or industrial setting.
Unicode name: Woman Factory Worker
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+1F3ED · added 2016
Shortcode: :female-factory-worker:
Generally, it just means a woman who works in a factory.
Where the 🏭 Factory emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3ED 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🏭 existed there as
KDDI au EAF9, SoftBank E508.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Factory was approved as U+1F3ED and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🏭 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.