Man construction worker Emoji

People

A man wearing a yellow safety hardhat, often depicted with a neutral or focused expression. This emoji represents someone employed in manual labor, building, or industrial site maintenance.

Usage Context

Used to signal that a task is currently in progress, a website is undergoing updates, or to acknowledge someone is heading to a job site. It is frequently combined with the 🏗️ building construction or 🚧 construction sign emojis to emphasize active work zones.

History

Added to the Unicode standard as part of the effort to diversify emoji demographics. While the generic construction worker arrived earlier, the gender-specific man variant was introduced in 2016 to allow for more precise identity representation in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👷‍♂

Unicode

U+1F477 U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f477_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC77;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

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

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