The gear emoji is the universal “settings/tinker/fix-it” button you can drop into a chat. It stands in for machinery, engineering brainwaves, and the satisfying clack of things clicking into place. People use it when they’re tweaking preferences, doing a DIY fix, or announcing maintenance and updates like a one-person IT department. It also doubles as shorthand for equipment—“new camera gear arrived”—and life mottos like “get your life in gear.”
In memes, it’s the visual of “my brain’s gears are turning,” sometimes ironically when the thought is… not exactly genius. It can read nerdy-cute with a wrench or screwdriver, or corporate-chaotic when captioned “optimizing” during a full meltdown. Creators use it to tease product drops or behind-the-scenes setups, while devs and IT folks throw it in for deploys, patches, or that Friday 5 p.m. “quick” update.
On Apple/iOS, it appears as a single steel-gray cog with beveled teeth, dimensional shading, and a dark inner ring, shown straight-on like a polished machine part. It echoes the vibe of the iOS Settings app’s interlocking cogs, but here you get one crisp, solitary gear—no nonsense, all precision. The metallic gradient and clean silhouette make it instantly recognizable even at tiny sizes. As a symbol, it’s long tied to industry and steampunk aesthetics, so it slides neatly into maker-culture posts and automation jokes alike.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1062 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 |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 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) | 2699 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+2699 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9881 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9A 0x99 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9A 99 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 232 231 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x2699 |
| UTF-16 Hex | 2699 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9881 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x00002699 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 2699 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9881 |
| Python Src | u"\u2699" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9a\x99" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u2699" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 - 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) | 2699, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+2699, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9881, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9A 0x99, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9A 99, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 232 231, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x2699, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | 2699, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9881, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x00002699 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 2699, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9881, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\u2699\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9a\x99\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u2699\uFE0F" |
