= industrial production site = date of production → 26ED ⛭ gear without hub
Information
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.
Definition
This factory may be producing a lot of carbon but I am sure they have reduced CFC output. :)
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1405 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
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Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:factory:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Textile Factory
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Building and Map Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
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
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[工場]
KDDI
#498 工場２ U+EAF9 SJIS-F3CD JIS-7A4F
Softbank
#340 #old431 工場 U+E508 SJIS-FBA8
Emoji Character Encoding Data
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 Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
