⚒Hammer and Pick Emoji
Basically, it means "work," "building," or "tools. " People use it to show they’re talking about something that requires effort and physical labor.
The ⚒ emoji is a crossed hammer and pickaxe.
- Unicode
- U+2692
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :hammer_and_pick:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⚒ Hammer and Pick emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Hammer and Pick emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+2692 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your hammer and pick looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Hammer and Pick emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :hammer_and_pick:.
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+2692.
How to type the ⚒ Hammer and Pick emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Hammer and Pick emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 8. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Hammer and Pick emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hammer and pick 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+2692, 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: Hammer and Pick
Code: U+2692 · added 2015
Shortcode: :hammer_and_pick:
Basically, it means "work," "building," or "tools.
Unicode name: Hammer
Code: U+1F528 · added 2010
Shortcode: :hammer:
Generally, when someone sends you a 🔨, they’re just referencing the hammer emoji.
Where the ⚒ Hammer and Pick emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+2692 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.
Hammer and Pick was approved as U+2692 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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.