People & Body · Emoji 4.0
👷♀️Woman Construction Worker Emoji
Generally, the 👷♀️ emoji means “hard work” or “doing a job.” People often use it to show appreciation for someone’s efforts, or to acknowledge someone’s profession.
The 👷♀️ emoji is a woman wearing a construction worker’s hat and vest.
- Unicode
- U+1F477 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :female-
construction- worker: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 👷♀️ Woman Construction Worker emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 12 of them.
People also look for it as work emoji.
02 — Platforms
Woman Construction Worker emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F477. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Woman Construction Worker emoji skin tones
👷♀️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Woman Construction Worker emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :female-construction-worker:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the woman construction worker, code point U+1F477.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👷♀️ Woman Construction Worker emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Woman Construction Worker emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Woman Construction Worker emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman construction worker for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 👷♀️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the woman construction worker and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 👷♀️ means in other countries
Reads as a literal tradesperson everywhere; online it’s picked up a second life meaning “still in progress.”
An actual construction, building, or trades worker doing physical labor
Shorthand for “this is under construction, not finished yet,” used loosely
Sometimes used to tag do-it-yourself projects or home renovation content
Before you send it: Works well for “work in progress” updates on a project; no real risk attached to it anywhere.
10 — Apps
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.
12 — Difference
👷♀️ vs 👳♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
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.”
Unicode name: Woman Wearing Turban
Code: U+1F473 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-wearing-turban:
It usually just means “woman wearing a turban.”
13 — History
Where the 👷♀️ Woman Construction Worker emoji came from
It arrived with the 4.0 release of the standard, which dates the woman construction worker to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F477 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F 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.
Woman Construction Worker was approved as U+1F477 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). 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, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ