Hard hat on, vibes immaculate. This emoji signals you’re building something—an actual deck, a DIY shelf that definitely needed more YouTube, or a metaphorical project like boundaries, a career glow-up, or a relationship fix. People drop it in chats to say “WIP,” “busy on site,” or ironically when they just caused chaos and now have to do cleanup duty. It’s also a go-to for devs announcing bug fixes, creators teasing launches, or anyone flexing their blue‑collar grit.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a front‑facing bust with a bright yellow hard hat and an orange hi‑vis safety vest with reflective silver stripes over a blue shirt. The face shows a small, friendly neutral smile—calm, competent, very “we’ve got this.” Clean shading, crisp lines, and that unmistakable Apple polish make it instantly recognizable in timelines and captions.
Online, it plays well with 🚧, 🛠️, 🧰, and 🏗️ for “under construction” aesthetics, throwbacks to old Geocities banners, or meme-y “road work ahead? uh yeah, I sure hope it does” energy. It can be flirty (“Need something installed? I’ve got tools”), dramatic (“brb rebuilding my life”), or sarcastic (“fixing the group chat after you-know-who dropped a take”). The medium-dark skin tone adds personal representation while keeping the universal “let’s get to work” message.
The Construction Worker emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3618 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 | |
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| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Deeper Brown Construction Worker Man Construction Worker: Medium-Dark Skin Tone construction worker: medium-dark skin tone man construction worker: medium-dark 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F477, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128119, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B7, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 267, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC77, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc77, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56439, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F477 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F477, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128119, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F477\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb7\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC77\uD83C\uDFFE" |
