Construction

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Shortcode
:construction:
Unicode
U+1F6A7
HTML
🚧
CSS
\1F6A7
JavaScript
"\u{1F6A7}"
URL
%F0%9F%9A%A7

barrier

What ๐Ÿšง means

A striped construction barrier. It means work in progress, under construction or roadworks.

Developers and teams use it to mark draft or unfinished work in Slack and pull requests. Drivers use it to complain about roadworks and detours. It also signals personal projects still being built, like a website or a new routine.

Facts

Construction ๐Ÿšง is an emoji in the travel and places category, under transport ground. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :construction:. People also look for it with words like โ€œbarrierโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. construction, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. construction, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. construction, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  4. construction, Google (Noto) design from 20212021
  5. construction, Google (Noto) design from 20252025

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. construction, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

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

travel & places ยท Unicode 6.0