construction worker: dark skin tone
Unicode: 1F477 1F3FF
Description
An emoji depicting a person wearing a construction helmet, with a dark skin tone modifier. The person has a serious or neutral expression.
Group:
People & Body > person-role
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Generally represents a worker, often in construction or maintenance. The emotion is neutral, conveying professionalism or the act of working.
Backstory
The 'person with construction helmet' emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015. The 'skin tone modifier (type-6)' 1F3FF was added later, allowing for diverse representations of the original emoji.
Usage Examples
- Indicating construction work: 'Road closed due to maintenance 👷🏿♂️'
- Referring to hard work: 'Long day at the office 👷🏿♀️'
- Representing a profession: 'My dad is a civil engineer 👷🏿'
- Signaling something is 'under construction' or 'in progress': 'Website relaunching soon! 👷🏿'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly used to represent construction workers, engineers, or manual labor. Can also be used metaphorically for 'work in progress' or 'under construction'.
East Asian culture:
Similar usage to Western culture, often seen in contexts related to building, repair, or professional work.