Construction emoji 🚧
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F6A7
What 🚧 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Construction 🚧 is tagged with these keywords: barrier.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing barrier or construction in the emoji search brings up 🚧.
Construction 🚧 is one of 50 emoji in the cars and trains subgroup of travel & places (221 emoji), next to 🚂 🚃 🚄 🚅.
Will 🚧 show on my friend's phone?
🚧 is one of the original emoji: it comes from the Japanese phone sets and is listed in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Every phone, computer and app shows it.
How to type 🚧
Any emoji picker finds 🚧 when you search for construction.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type construction.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type construction in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type construction.
Codes for developers
Construction 🚧 is a single code point, U+1F6A7. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F6A7 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🚧 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🚧 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F6A7"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F6A7} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%9A%A7 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 9A A7 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🚧 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | construction |
| Português | em construção |
| Español | obras |
| Italiano | area cantiere |
| Français | travaux |
| Deutsch | Baustellenabsperrung |
| Türkçe | inşaat |
| Bahasa Indonesia | konstruksi |
| Polski | prace drogowe |
| Русский | строительные работы |
| 日本語 | 工事中 |
| 한국어 | 공사 중 |
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All travel & places emoji →Questions people ask
What does the construction emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🚧 "construction" and links it with barrier. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the cars and trains subgroup of travel & places.
When was the construction emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the construction emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🚧 when you search for construction.