Brick Emoji

Travel

Two rectangular, reddish-brown clay bricks stacked neatly with a dab of mortar visible between them. It looks like a building material ready for construction or a small section of a masonry wall.

Usage Context

Used to talk about construction projects, real estate, or home improvement. It is also common internet slang for a device that has stopped working entirely—a 'bricked' phone or console—and is sometimes used alongside 🚧 to signal roadwork or building updates.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2018, this emoji arrived as part of the push to represent physical trades and infrastructure more accurately. Its inclusion reflects the shift toward using digital icons to describe real-world technical failures and manual labor.

Details

Glyph

🧱

Unicode

U+1F9F1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9f1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDF1;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Travel

Subcategory place-building

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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