Building construction

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Shortcode
:building_construction:
Unicode
U+1F3D7
HTML
🏗
CSS
\1F3D7
JavaScript
"\u{1F3D7}"
URL
%F0%9F%8F%97%EF%B8%8F

buildingconstructioncrane

What ๐Ÿ—๏ธ means

A building with a crane on top. It means construction, building work and 'under construction'.

Work chat uses it for work in progress: a draft, a beta or a project still being built. It also fits home renovations and new developments.

Often paired with ๐Ÿšง to mean 'not ready yet'.

Facts

Building construction ๐Ÿ—๏ธ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under place building. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :building_construction:. People also look for it with words like โ€œbuildingโ€, โ€œconstructionโ€, or โ€œcraneโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. building construction, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. building construction, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. building construction, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  2. building construction, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20172017

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

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