Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
🚧Construction Emoji
It usually means something is temporarily unavailable or undergoing changes. People use it to warn others about a situation that's a bit inconvenient or messy.
The 🚧 emoji shows a construction sign.
- Unicode
- U+1F6A7
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :construction:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🚧 Construction emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 1.
02 — Platforms
Construction emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the construction has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Construction 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:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F6A7.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🚧 Construction emoji
No picker to hand? The construction can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Construction emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the construction as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Construction emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around construction 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 with 🚧, 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 construction and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🚧 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F6A7, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🚧 vs 👷♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Construction
Code: U+1F6A7 · added 2010
Shortcode: :construction:
It usually means something is temporarily unavailable or undergoing changes.
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.”
12 — History
Where the 🚧 Construction 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+1F6A7 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 E5D7, SoftBank E137.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Construction was approved as U+1F6A7 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.
13 — FAQ