This emoji clocks in wearing a bright yellow hard hat and high‑vis swagger—the construction worker, now in a rich dark skin tone. On Apple/iOS you’ll spot a friendly, front‑facing bust with a subtle smile, clean shading, and that unmistakable neon‑orange safety vest layered over a collared shirt. It telegraphs “work in progress,” “maintenance mode,” and “I’m literally building this” for everything from code deploys to kitchen remodels to glow‑up plans. People drop it in captions while fixing bugs, assembling IKEA without tears (allegedly), or announcing site updates like it’s 1998 GeoCities all over again. In texting and meme-speak, it doubles as “hard‑hat energy”—a way to say you’re grinding, renovating your life, or patching the chaos with duct tape and optimism. It also lands sarcastically: “relationship under construction,” “brain is scaffolding rn,” or after spilling tea you immediately promise to rebuild your reputation. Flirty users sometimes pair it with a hammer to tease “I can fix that,” while fitness folks use it for “building glutes, stand clear.” Visual cues are iconic—the glossy helmet, bold vest stripes, centered portrait—so it pops in feeds and plays nice alongside 🚧, ⚠️, 🛠️, and 🧱. Culturally, it nods to blue‑collar pride, Labor Day shout‑outs, Bob the Builder nostalgia, and every “Pardon our dust” sign you’ve ever side‑eyed. When you need to say we’re making progress (or at least pretending convincingly), this is the emoji that clocks in on time.
The Construction Worker emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3619 of 2393 |
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| 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Black Construction Worker Man Construction Worker: Dark Skin Tone construction worker: dark skin tone man construction worker: 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F477, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128119, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B7, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 267, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC77, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc77, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56439, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F477 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F477, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128119, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F477\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb7\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC77\uD83C\uDFFF" |
