🪓
A single-bladed axe, added by Unicode in 2019, a full decade after 🔨 Hammer got its own icon. It backs up "getting the axe," being fired or cut from a project, and "an axe to grind," holding onto a grudge, more than any actual chopping.
What 🪓 means
A cutting tool designed with a wooden handle and a thick metal block, steeply sharpened on one side. The 🪓 Axe emoji symbolizes cutting or chopping something down. It could figuratively signify reduction, decrease, and shortage too.
How and when to use it
- If you're texting someone your plans of cutting down your expenses or even if you're advising the other person of the same, you could use 🪓.
- Use 🪓 while talking about brutally cutting something down/off. For example, "Honestly? It's high time you cut ties with that toxic family 🪓" or "I really, reeeeallly think you could cut yourself some slack here 🪓".
- Even in the context of "axing" (essentially, firing) someone out of a particular place, group, organization, etc. you can use 🪓. Like, "Oh, she was axed out a looong time ago 🪓".
- An ax is generally used to chop wood, and thus, deforestation. You may use 🪓 while sharing posts or reposts on the subject as well.
- 🪓 is mandatory while sharing content on ax throwing.
Other Names
- 🪓 Ax
- 🪓 Axing
- 🪓 Hatchet
- 🪓 Cleaver
- 🪓 Chopper
- 🪓 Battleaxe/Battle Axe
- 🪓 Poleaxe
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › tool
- Codepoints
U+1FA93- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:axe:- Keywords
- ax, axe, chop, hatchet, split, wood
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🪓 Axe or 😔 Pensive Face?