Brick emoji 🧱
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F9F1
What 🧱 means
Brick 🧱 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: bricks, clay, mortar, wall.
Those words also drive emoji search: try bricks or clay on your phone to find 🧱.
On the emoji keyboard, 🧱 sits with the buildings (27 emoji) inside travel & places, which has 221 emoji, for example 🪨 🪵 🛖 🏘️.
Will 🧱 show on my friend's phone?
🧱 dates from Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🧱
To find 🧱 quickly, type brick into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type brick.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type brick in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type brick.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🧱 as one code point, U+1F9F1: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9F1 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧱 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧱 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9F1"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9F1} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%B1 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 B1 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧱 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the brick emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧱 "brick" and links it with bricks, clay, mortar, wall. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the buildings subgroup of travel & places.
When was the brick emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the brick emoji?
To find 🧱 quickly, type brick into the emoji search.