man construction worker: medium-light skin tone
Unicode: 1F477 1F3FC 200D 2642
Description
A man wearing a hard hat, with fair skin, typically depicted in yellow or orange, indicating a construction worker or someone in a similar profession.
Group:
People & Body > person-role
Status:
minimally-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral, or indicating profession/responsibility. Can be used to express admiration for hard work, construction, or a 'can-do' attitude.
Backstory
This emoji is a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence combining the 'Man' emoji (1F468), 'Man construction worker' (1F477), and the 'light skin tone' modifier (1F3FC) into a single representation. The base 'Man construction worker' emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010), representing various trades like builders or architects. The skin tone modifier was added later.
Usage Examples
- Talking about construction: 'The new building is almost finished! 👷🏻♂️'
- Discussing work: 'Time to get to work! 👷🏻♂️'
- Referring to manual labor: 'He's always busy with projects around the house 👷🏻♂️'
- Figuratively 'building' something: 'We're going to build a great team! 👷🏻♂️'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly represents a construction worker, builder, or someone involved in manual labor; occasionally used in the context of 'fixing' things or 'building' ideas.
East Asian culture:
Similar interpretation, often used literally for construction, or sometimes metaphorically for 'building' a plan or 'working hard at something'.