👨🔧
What 👨🔧 means
Cropped from the shoulders up, this man has short, side-parted hair, wears mechanic overalls, and holds a spanner against his left shoulder.
The 👨🔧 Man Mechanic emoji signifies skill, knowledge, and a knack for fixing things. It can also showcase attributes such as dexterity, fine motor skills, and eye-hand coordination.
It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.
How and when to use it
- If you recently got a job as a mechanic and finally got that much-awaited promotion, then you can use 👨🔧 while sharing that piece of celebration and achievement.
- If you're talking about dexterity or making an online poster on it, you can use 👨🔧 as one of the examples of occupations for people with great dexterity.
- You can also use 👨🔧 to show that you have a secret skill to fix stuff. It can also be a sweet way of showing that you can help by using this emoji especially in conversations about broken relationships (not to be sappy, but sweet instead).
- 👨🔧 can also be used while posting anything related to machinery, repair work, blue-collar employment, anything.
- If you recently graduated from a mechanic school, you can use 👨🔧 while posting about the event or sharing the moment with your close ones.
Other Names
- 👨🔧 Mechanic
- 👨🔧 Male Mechanic
- 👨🔧 Repairman
- 👨🔧 Blue Collar Employee
- 👨🔧 Fixing
- 👨🔧 Mechanist
- 👨🔧 Machinery Worker
- 👨🔧 Mechanician
- 👨🔧 Grease Monkey (use it only and ONLY if you or the other person is fine with it)
- 👨🔧 Technician
- 👨🔧 Hard Worker
- 👨🔧 Manual Labourer
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person-role
- Codepoints
U+1F468 U+200D U+1F527- Emoji version
- Emoji 4.0
- Shortcodes
:male-mechanic:Slack:man_mechanic:Discord- Keywords
- electrician, man, mechanic, plumber, tradesperson
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
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.
Skin tone variations
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 👨🔧 Man Mechanic or 🚅 Bullet Train?
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