👷

Construction Worker Emoji 👷

Hard hat and hi-vis vest — the construction worker emoji represents the building trades. It's used for literal work-site content and, more loosely, for anything 'under construction,' from a half-finished project to a plan that's still being figured out.

What 👷 means

Short hair, a yellow hard hat or safety helmet, and construction gear that includes a plain tee shirt and a synthetic overcoat make up this gender-neutral figure.

The 👷 Construction Worker emoji refers to any builder irrespective of gender and sex. This emoji signifies hard work, skill, dedication, discipline, teamwork, effort, and lots of physical strength.

It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you've built something at home and you're either posting it on your social media stories or sending a DM to a friend, use 👷 in that context.
If you recently joined as a construction worker and you're posting a picture of you at work or with your work buddies, you can use 👷 in the caption.
Since 👷 is a gender-neutral emoji, it's a great option if you're sensitive about your identity online.
👷 can be used as an emoji response to any social media post on manual labor, construction, architecture, building designs, etc. You can also use this emoji while posting about these topics too.
If your kids or you (age is just a number) are watching the classic show, 'Bob the Builder' (or any similar one) and you're putting a story about it on your social media handle either as 'memories' or 'nostalgia', use 👷 in that story.
Apart from these, 👷 can also be used to indicate the safety helmet here. For example, you can tag this emoji along with the "get home safe" text to add both concern and hilarity to the context.

Other Names

👷 Gender-Neutral Construction Worker
👷 Builder
👷 Constructor
👷 Bob the Builder
👷 Manual Laborer
👷 Infrastructure Builder
👷 Face With Hat
👷 Hard-Hat
👷 Safety Helmet
👷 Mason
👷 Brick Layer
👷 Construction Worker Costume

👷 in real conversations

What does 👷 mean outside of an actual job site?

'Under construction,' loosely applied — a profile that's still being set up, a project that's half-finished, plans that aren't ready to show yet. It borrows the literal hard-hat, work-in-progress image and applies it to anything not done cooking, from a new business to a personality still figuring itself out.

What does 👷 mean in a bio?

Usually literal — flagging an actual trade job: construction, contracting, renovation work. It's a quick way to signal 'I build things for a living' without spelling out the specific title, similar to how other profession emoji work as a one-symbol résumé line rather than a joke or a metaphor.

Is 👷 gendered?

The base emoji is meant to be neutral, just a person in hard hat and hi-vis vest. There are also specific man (👷‍♂️) and woman (👷‍♀️) versions if you want to be explicit about who's being pictured, the same setup most profession emoji use. Reach for the plain one unless gender is actually the point.

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-role
Codepoints: U+1F477
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :construction_worker:
Keywords: build, construction, fix, hardhat, hat, man, person, rebuild, remodel, repair, work, worker

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.