man construction worker: medium-dark skin tone
Unicode: 1F477 1F3FE 200D 2642 FE0F
Description
An emoji depicting a man wearing a hardhat, also known as a construction worker or an architect.
Group:
People & Body > person-role
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Represents labor, construction, work, building, and often implies competence, hard work, or a specific profession.
Backstory
The 'man with hard hat' emoji is a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence combining '👷 Person With Hard Hat' (U+1F477), '🏽 Medium-Dark Skin Tone' (U+1F3FE), ' ZWJ' (U+200D), '♂ Male Sign' (U+2642), and '️ Variation Selector-16' (U+FE0F). The base emoji (person with hard hat) was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010), and the gendered and skin tone variations were added later to provide more inclusive representation.
Usage Examples
- Talking about construction: 'The new building downtown is almost finished! 👷🏾♂️'
- Indicating work or labor: 'Time to get to work! 👷🏾♂️'
- Referring to a specific profession: 'My dad is a civil engineer 👷🏾♂️'
- Figuratively 'building' something: 'We're really building something special here 👷🏾♂️'
Cultural Differences
General:
Universally recognized as a symbol for manual labor, construction, or a professional worker.
Specific contexts:
Can also be used in contexts related to planning, architecture, or even 'building' something metaphorically (e.g., 'building a career').