👷Construction Worker Emoji
Generally, the 👷 emoji means someone is working hard or involved in a physical job. It’s often used to show support for someone doing manual labor or to acknowledge effort.
The 👷 emoji shows a construction worker wearing a hard hat.
- Unicode
- U+1F477
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :construction_worker:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👷 Construction Worker emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 12.
Construction Worker emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the construction worker has been drawn in 4 ways.
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.
Construction Worker emoji skin tones
👷 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Construction Worker 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 :construction_worker:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the construction worker, code point U+1F477.
How to type the 👷 Construction Worker emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Construction Worker emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the construction worker as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Construction Worker emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around construction worker 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 in other countries
Straightforward everywhere — literal trade worker, or the internet-standard “still building this” marker.
Actual construction, building, or general manual labor profession
Signals a feature, page, or project that isn’t finished being built yet
Used for home renovation, remodeling, or DIY project update content
Before you send it: Solid pick for “work in progress” messages on any kind of project; nothing to watch out for.
What 👷 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
👷 vs 👷♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Construction Worker
Code: U+1F477 · added 2010
Shortcode: :construction_worker:
Generally, the 👷 emoji means someone is working hard or involved in a physical job.
Unicode name: Woman Construction Worker
Code: U+1F477 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :female-construction-worker:
Generally, the 👷♀️ emoji means “hard work” or “doing a job.
Where the 👷 Construction Worker 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+1F477 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 EB19, SoftBank E51B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Construction Worker was approved as U+1F477 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.