Construction worker: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a yellow safety hardhat, rendered with a medium-dark skin tone. The design shows the head and shoulders of an individual prepared for manual labor or heavy industrial work.

Usage Context

Used to discuss building projects, home renovations, or on-the-job status. It is frequently sent by tradespeople or DIY enthusiasts to signal that they are in the middle of a task or to acknowledge someone hard at work. It is often paired with emojis like 🔨 or 🚧 to emphasize physical progress.

History

The base construction worker emoji arrived in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The skin tone modifiers were introduced later in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, following a massive push to ensure that human-form emojis better represented the global diversity of the actual workforce.

Details

Glyph

👷🏾

Unicode

U+1F477 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f477_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC77;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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