What ๐งโ๐ญ means
A person in a welding mask or protective gear, standing for factory, industrial and manufacturing work. It covers welding, metalwork and shifts on a production line.
Workers use it to talk about long shifts, overtime and hard physical jobs. Makers and hobby welders post it with โจ or ๐ฅ on a new build. It can also mean grinding hard, running at full output.
Facts
Factory worker ๐งโ๐ญ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง person and ๐ญ factory. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :factory_worker:. People also look for it with words like โassemblyโ, โfactoryโ, โindustrialโ, or โworkerโ.
Made of
๐ง+๐ญ=๐งโ๐ญ
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.1)
- 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.1)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2020
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 12.1