Shovel
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- Shortcode
:shovel:- Unicode
U+1FA8F- HTML
🪏- CSS
\1FA8F- JavaScript
"\u{1FA8F}"- URL
%F0%9F%AA%8F
What ๐ช means
A digging shovel. It means digging, gardening and moving dirt or snow.
Gardeners and snow-clearers use it literally. Figuratively, someone "digging themselves deeper" gets a ๐ช, and it can mean burying a bad idea. It also fits tree planting and groundbreaking events.
Facts
Shovel ๐ช is an emoji in the objects category, under tool. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 16.0, released in 2024. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :shovel:. People also look for it with words like โburyโ, โdigโ, โgardenโ, or โholeโ.
Timeline
- 2024Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 16.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2024
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2025
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.