Construction worker: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a yellow safety hardhat, depicted with a medium-light skin tone. The design focuses on the protective gear essential for laborers in industrial and building environments.

Usage Context

Used to signal that someone is busy, working on a project, or dealing with physical repairs. It often appears in conversations about ongoing tasks or when someone is 'under construction' in their personal life. It pairs well with other work-related icons like 🛠️ or 🏗️.

History

Construction workers were introduced to the emoji set to provide diverse representation for occupations. The hardhat became a shorthand for manual labor in early digital messaging, evolving from 20th-century safety iconography used in industrial workplace signage.

Details

Glyph

👷🏼

Unicode

U+1F477 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f477_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC77;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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