= industrial production site = date of production → 26ED ⛭ gear without hub
The factory emoji is the internet’s shorthand for the grind: churning out essays, code, content, or vibes on an assembly line schedule. Drop it when you’re clocking in for a 9-to-5, when you’re a one-person meme machine, or when you’re ironically flexing that hustle-culture “rise and grind” energy. It also doubles as a sarcastic climate take—smokestacks = smog discourse—or a cheeky nod to turning your brain into a productivity plant. In gamer world, it’s the badge of honor for Factorio/Satisfactory/Cities: Skylines fans who built a belt spaghetti so complex it has its own zip code.
On Apple devices, the emoji looks like a steel-blue industrial building with bright yellow windows and two tall orange-red chimneys puffing gray-white smoke. The styling is clean and slightly isometric, with blocky shapes that scream “heavy industry,” even if the colors feel low-key cozy. Those twin smokestacks are the instant giveaway; one glance and you can almost hear conveyor belts going clack-clack.
People use it for “content factory online,” “deadline mode,” or to roast corporate life with a friendly dystopian wink—Industrial Revolution go brrr. It pops up in music and art chats as “beat factory” or “idea mill,” and in foodie jokes when a kitchen is blasting orders like a Michelin-star assembly line. Sometimes it reads as a power plant or pollution symbol in eco posts, other times it’s pure Wonka-core when someone claims they’re opening a chocolate operation in their apartment.
This factory may be producing a lot of carbon but I am sure they have reduced CFC output. :)
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1405 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :factory: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Textile Factory |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Building and Map Symbols |
| Unicode Category | Artifacts |
| Unicode Subcategory | Building and Map Symbols |
| Names & Annotations | FACTORY = industrial production site = date of production |
| Symbol Information | U+1F3ED proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-4C0 |
| DoCoMo | [工場] |
| KDDI | #498 工場２ U+EAF9 SJIS-F3CD JIS-7A4F |
| Softbank | #340 #old431 工場 U+E508 SJIS-FBA8 |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 4 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | |
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e508 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E508 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 58632 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x94 0x88 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 94 88 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 224 210 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE508 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e508 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 58632 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E508 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E508 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 58632 |
| Python Src | u"\uE508" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x94\x88" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE508" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🏭 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🏭 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🏭 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🏭 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f3ed |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3ED |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127981 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xAD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F AD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 255 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFED |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfed |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57325 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3ED |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3ED |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127981 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3ED" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\xad" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFED" |
| Emoji Encoding | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | ||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  | 󾓀 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  | 󾓀 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | eaf9 | fe4c0 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+EAF9 | U+FE4C0 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 60153 | 1041600 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0xAB 0xB9 | 0xF3 0xBE 0x93 0x80 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE AB B9 | F3 BE 93 80 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 253 271 | 363 276 223 200 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEAF9 | 0xDBB9 0xDCC0 |
| UTF-16 Hex | eaf9 | dbb9dcc0 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 60153 | 56249 56512 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000EAF9 | 0x000FE4C0 |
| UTF-32 Hex | EAF9 | 0FE4C0 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 60153 | 1041600 |
| Python Src | u"\uEAF9" | u"\U000FE4C0" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\xab\xb9" | "\xf3\xbe\x93\x80" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uEAF9" | "\uDBB9\uDCC0" |
