Wrench
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- Shortcode
:wrench:- Unicode
U+1F527- HTML
🔧- CSS
\1F527- JavaScript
"\u{1F527}"- URL
%F0%9F%94%A7
What ๐ง means
A wrench, called a spanner in British English. It means repair work, mechanics and adjusting things until they run.
Car people, plumbers and tinkerers use it for fixes. In apps it often stands for settings or tools. "Threw a ๐ง in the plans" plays on the saying about a wrench in the works.
Facts
Wrench ๐ง is an emoji in the objects category, under tool. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 3 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :wrench:. People also look for it with words like โhomeโ, โimprovementโ, โspannerโ, or โtoolโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
- 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)๐จโ๐ง๐ฉโ๐ง
- 2019New emoji built from it (Emoji 12.1)๐งโ๐ง
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.