Pick
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- Shortcode
:pick:- Unicode
U+26CF- HTML
⛏- CSS
\26CF- JavaScript
"\u{26CF}"- URL
%E2%9B%8F%EF%B8%8F
What ⛏️ means
A pickaxe. It stands for mining, digging and grinding through slow, hard work.
Gamers lean on it for mining and crafting games, Minecraft above all. Outside games it means putting in the hours: "back to the mines ⛏️" is a joking way to say back to work.
Facts
Pick ⛏️ is an emoji in the objects category, under tool. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :pick:. People also look for it with words like “hammer”, “mining”, or “tool”.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
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.