Gear
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- Shortcode
:gear:- Unicode
U+2699- HTML
⚙- CSS
\2699- JavaScript
"\u{2699}"- URL
%E2%9A%99%EF%B8%8F
What ⚙️ means
A single cog wheel. It means settings, machinery and how something works on the inside.
In tech it almost always points to settings or configuration. It also suggests process and engineering: "the ⚙️ are turning" means someone is thinking hard. Pair with 🛠️ for maintenance.
Facts
Gear ⚙️ is an emoji in the objects category, under tool. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :gear:. People also look for it with words like “cog”, “cogwheel”, or “tool”.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.