What ๐จโ๐ง means
A man with a wrench, standing for male mechanics, plumbers and tradesmen. It signals hands-on repair work.
Common on posts from garages and job sites, and in texts like โmy brother is fixing it ๐จโ๐งโ. It also teases a guy who swears he can fix anything with tape and one tool. Pair with ๐ ๏ธ or ๐ฉ for a project in progress.
Facts
Man mechanic ๐จโ๐ง is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins ๐จ man and ๐ง wrench. 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 :man_mechanic:. People also look for it with words like โelectricianโ, โmanโ, โmechanicโ, or โplumberโ.
Made of
๐จ+๐ง=๐จโ๐ง
Timeline
- 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
- 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 4.0)
Design history
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 4.0