What ๐งโ๐ง means
A person in work clothes with a ๐ง wrench, standing for mechanics, plumbers, electricians and the skilled trades. It means fixing something, by hand or in general.
People use it for car repairs, DIY jobs around the house, and trade work. In work chat it signals โon it, fixing this nowโ for a bug, a broken printer or a messy spreadsheet. Pair with ๐ or ๐ for context.
Facts
Mechanic ๐งโ๐ง 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 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 :mechanic:. People also look for it with words like โelectricianโ, โplumberโ, or โtradespersonโ.
Made of
๐ง+๐ง=๐งโ๐ง
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