Hard hat on, vibes secure. This emoji rolls up in your chat wearing full PPE to say “I’m working on it,” “site’s under construction,” or “I broke it but I can probably fix it.” People drop it in bug-fix updates, DIY weekend plans, gym “building season,” and the classic “brain under renovation” joke. It also works sarcastically after a chaotic deploy or a messy breakup—aka “we’re doing maintenance on our emotions.” Bonus meme energy: the “I can fix him/her” trope, but with OSHA-approved optimism.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a bust-length person facing forward with a calm, tiny smile, a bright yellow hard hat, and an orange safety vest with pale silver reflective stripes; the medium-light skin tone shows on the face and neck. No tools, no background—just clean, glossy Apple shading that makes the helmet pop in dark mode and light mode alike. It’s instantly recognizable as the “work in progress” status icon for release notes, home reno posts, or TikTok fixes-gone-wrong. Think Bob the Builder meets Jira tickets, with a sprinkle of “safety first” and a dash of union-proud, Labor Day feed energy.
The Construction Worker emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3616 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Light Brown Construction Worker Man Construction Worker: Medium-Light Skin Tone construction worker: medium-light skin tone man construction worker: medium-light skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👷🏼 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👷🏼 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👷 🏼 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👷 🏼 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f477, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F477, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128119, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B7, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 267, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC77, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc77, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56439, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F477 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F477, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128119, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F477\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb7\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC77\uD83C\uDFFC" |
