construction worker: medium-dark skin tone
Unicode: 1F477 1F3FE
Description
A person with a hard hat, indicating a construction worker or professional technician. The skin tone modifier indicates a medium-dark skin tone.
Group:
People & Body > person-role
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Typically represents hard work, construction, building, skilled labor, or readiness to fix something.
Backstory
The 'Person With Hard Hat' emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010), representing various skilled trades and professions. The skin tone modifiers (like 1F3FE for medium-dark skin tone) were added in Unicode 8.0 (2015) to promote diversity and inclusivity.
Usage Examples
- Indicating work or effort: 'Time to get to work! 👷🏾'
- Referring to construction: 'New building being built in town! 👷🏾'
- Symbolizing repair or fixing: 'Working on fixing the issue. 👷🏾'
- Representing a specific profession: 'My dad is a construction worker. 👷🏾'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly used to represent construction workers, engineers, handymen, or someone 'getting to work' on a task.
East Asian culture:
Similar usage, often seen in contexts of labor, building, or problem-solving.