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Hammer and Pick Emoji ⚒️

Hammer and pick crossed in an X is the classic mining symbol, the kind stamped on coats of arms for mining towns and used on maps to mark a mine. It's the oldest of the emoji keyboard's tool combos, approved back in 2005, and gets far less everyday use than its lookalike, 🛠️ Hammer and Wrench, which reads as generic maintenance rather than mining.

What ⚒️ means

A double emoji of a 🔨 Hammer and a ⛏️ Pick, placed one in front of the other, forming an 'X'. The ⚒️ Hammer and Pick emoji would largely interpret mining, and the equipment needed for molding, digging, or even breaking something.

How and when to use it

If you're talking about 'hitting rock bottom' in any context (even besides addiction, of course), ⚒️ would be a cool addition; post captions, smart text messages, etc.
A few instances of the previous use-case: "Hitting rock bottom doesn't have to mean you stay there! ⚒️" or "I had hit rock bottom with everything at this point, dude. But guess, what. I didn't stop ⚒️".
All you gym/fitness freaks out there (and the ones who are on the neverending verge of going to one), you can use ⚒️ in the caption while sharing informative content on hammer and chisel workout or even a social media post/story of the same (bucket lists count too)!
Since ⚒️ would also describe a workout schedule, you could use this emoji in the contexts of 'being ripped' as well. Like, "Post-workout ripped scene ⚒️" or "This bodybuilder would always be my goals ⚒️".
From a broader perspective, ⚒️ is the symbol of mining; miners, mines, etc. So, you can use this emoji in related frameworks as well.

Other Names

⚒️ Hammer and Chisel
⚒️ Hammer and Sickle
⚒️ Hammer and Pick Symbol
⚒️ Hammer and Chisel Workout
⚒️ Mining Tools
⚒️ Miner's Tools
⚒️ Miner's Hammer and Pick

The lowdown

Category: Objects › tool
Codepoints: U+2692 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :hammer_and_pick: GitHub
Keywords: hammer, pick, tool

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.