Mechanic

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Shortcode
:mechanic:
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F527
HTML
🧑‍🔧
CSS
\1F9D1\200D\1F527
JavaScript
"\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F527}"
URL
%F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%94%A7

electricianplumbertradesperson

What ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ง means

A person in work clothes with a ๐Ÿ”ง 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 โ€œon it, fixing this nowโ€ for a bug, a broken printer or a messy spreadsheet. Pair with ๐Ÿš— or ๐Ÿ  for context.

Facts

Mechanic ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ง 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 ๐Ÿง‘ person and ๐Ÿ”ง 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 โ€œelectricianโ€, โ€œplumberโ€, or โ€œtradespersonโ€.

Made of

๐Ÿง‘+๐Ÿ”ง=๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ง

Timeline

  1. 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.1)
  2. 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.1)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. mechanic, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. mechanic, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20202020

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

people & body ยท Emoji 12.1