The brick emoji is the internet’s go-to symbol for anything sturdy, heavy, or stubbornly unmovable—physically or metaphorically. It pops up when you’re “building” something (projects, habits, gym gains), when a plan is solid, or when you want to say that last joke landed like, well, masonry. Sports fans use it after a clanged jump shot—“that was a brick”—and tech folks groan about having “bricked” a phone after a cursed update. In cold-weather slang, New Yorkers and beyond’ll say “it’s brick outside,” meaning bundle-up levels of chilly.
Memes play with it too: “bricked up” gets tossed around jokingly for awkward thirst or over-the-top flustered energy, while sneakerheads call a no-resale drop a “brick.” Money-talk sneaks in with “brick” for a thick, rubber-banded stack of cash, and nostalgia heads nod to old “brick phones” that could survive the apocalypse. On Apple/iOS, the emoji shows a single clay-red rectangular brick at a slight three-quarter angle, with smooth shading, sharp edges, and visible round core holes on the top face—no face or markings, just classic kiln-baked vibes. It’s the same energy as the Three Little Pigs’ safest house and the Commodores’ “Brick House,” but now compact enough to text someone that your code deploy hit the wall, brick-by-brick.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 913 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| 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: | Bricks |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 12 - 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) | 1f9f1 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9F1 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129521 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0xB1 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 B1 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 261 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDF1 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddf1 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56817 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9F1 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9F1 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129521 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9F1" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\xb1" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDF1" |
