Objects · Emoji 0.7
⛏️Pick Emoji
Generally, ⛏️ means a pickaxe or digging. It’s used to represent the act of digging, excavating, or hard work.
The ⛏️ emoji represents a pickaxe, a tool used for digging and mining.
- Unicode
- U+26CF U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :pick:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ⛏️ Pick emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
02 — Platforms
Pick emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the pick as 8 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Pick emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :pick:.
All emoji copy and paste →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+26CF.
04 — How to type
How to type the ⛏️ Pick emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Pick emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the pick as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Emoji PNG library →06 — Combinations
Pick emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pick 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.
07 — In conversation
What ⛏️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What ⛏️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+26CF, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
⛏️ vs ⚒️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Pick
Code: U+26CF U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :pick:
Generally, ⛏️ means a pickaxe or digging.
Unicode name: Hammer and Pick
Code: U+2692 U+FE0F · added 2015
Shortcode: :hammer_and_pick:
Basically, it means "work," "building," or "tools."
11 — History
Where the ⛏️ Pick emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the pick to 2014.
Same character every time — U+26CF 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.
Pick was approved as U+26CF U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). 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.
12 — FAQ