Ladder Emoji
Objects
A tall, portable ladder consisting of two side rails connected by a series of horizontal rungs. It is depicted as a standard wood or metal frame designed for reaching heights.
Usage Context
Used to talk about home improvement projects, climbing, or the literal act of working on a roof or painting. It is frequently sent as a metaphor for climbing the corporate ladder or achieving professional growth, often paired with the building or construction emojis.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2020 as part of Emoji 13.0, the ladder was requested to fill a gap in the tool category, allowing users to more easily describe manual labor, trade work, and everyday repair tasks that were previously difficult to express with existing icons.
Details
Glyph
🪜
Unicode
U+1FA9C
Shortcode
:emoji_u1fa9c:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Objects
Subcategory tool
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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