The axe emoji swings between outdoorsy practicality and dramatic flair. People drop it when they’re chopping through a to-do list, planning a camping trip, or metaphorically “cutting ties” with bad vibes. It also doubles as dark comedy or horror-movie shorthand—think The Shining energy—plus gamer talk for Minecraft/Valheim loot runs and Viking cosplay bragging rights. Bonus slang: “got the axe” for being fired, or “axe to grind” when someone’s beefing.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a clean, single-bit felling axe: curved, tan wood-grain handle; bold red head; crisp silver blade with a bright edge highlight, tilted diagonally up-right like it’s mid-swing. It looks sturdy and slightly glossy, the kind you’d trust to fell a cartoonishly large tree (or a towering stack of tasks). Online, it pops up sarcastically for “let’s cut this idea,” flirty as in lumberjack-core thirst posts, or as a punchline for “chopping prices” during sales. It can also nod to guitars (musicians calling their instrument an “axe”) or the infamous body spray—with equal parts irony and nostalgia.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1063 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 | |
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| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - 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) | 1fa93 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1FA93 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129683 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xAA 0x93 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F AA 93 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 252 223 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDE93 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ede93 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56979 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001FA93 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01FA93 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129683 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001FA93" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xaa\x93" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDE93" |
