Pick Emoji

Objects

A classic metal pickaxe with a pointed head and a wooden handle. It is shown tilted diagonally, ready for striking hard surfaces or extracting materials.

Usage Context

Used to represent manual labor, mining, construction, or the act of digging. It is a staple in gaming culture, frequently used to discuss resource gathering in games like Minecraft or to indicate that someone is putting in hard work. It is often grouped with emojis like 🔨 or 🧱.

History

Included in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the pickaxe was added to represent industrial tools within digital messaging. Its inclusion reflects the influence of early sandbox and survival video games that popularized the tool as a core mechanic for interacting with virtual environments.

Details

Glyph

⛏

Unicode

U+26CF

Shortcode

:emoji_u26cf:

HTML Entity

⛏

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Objects

Subcategory tool

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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