🛠️

Hammer and Wrench Emoji 🛠️

Crossed hammer and wrench is the internet's generic maintenance icon, the label GitHub uses for build tools and the marker apps show during scheduled downtime. It marks "still under construction" as often for a webpage as for an actual repair, distinct from ⚒️ Hammer and Pick's specifically mining pedigree.

What 🛠️ means

A coupled emoji with a 🔨 Hammer and a wrench, placed back to back to form an 'X'. The 🛠️ Hammer and Wrench emoji represents an essential pair found in a toolbox. It could suggest the professions of a mechanic, or a plumber while signifying the act of fixing something.

How and when to use it

Generally, 🛠️ means fixing something, as mentioned in the previous section. So, if you're literally or metaphorically referring to 'fixing' as a verb, and its other variations in any context, you may use this emoji.
Examples for the previous point would be: "This year's major resolution is to fix me! 🛠️", "Anything is fixable with a little bit of love 🛠️", or "Please fix your mouth first 🛠️ So that it says the right things for once".
You can use 🛠️ idiomatically while talking about 'tools' too. For example, "Chill. You weren't a bad carpenter 🛠️" or "What do you call bad carpenters who blame others tools?? 🛠️".
While sharing mechanical posts or reposts, you could include 🛠️ in the caption. This could be information related to the skill, profession, satisfying videos, or even individual professionals.

Other Names

🛠️ Hammer and Spanner
🛠️ Hammer With Wrench
🛠️ Hammer and Stillson Wrench
🛠️ Mallet and Obstruction Wrench
🛠️ Gavel and a Pipe Wrench

The lowdown

Category: Objects › tool
Codepoints: U+1F6E0 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :hammer_and_wrench: GitHub
Keywords: hammer, spanner, tool, wrench

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.