🧑‍🔧

Mechanic Emoji 🧑‍🔧

What 🧑‍🔧 means

Short, side-parted hair and blue-and-white mechanic overalls mark this gender-neutral figure, who holds a spanner up near the left side of the face.

The 🧑‍🔧 Mechanic emoji refers to any person working as a mechanic, irrespective of gender and sex. It signifies an ability to fix things, honing immense knowledge and skill in the field and manual labor too.

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

How and when to use it

If you have the natural tendency and the knack to fix almost anything, broken machinery, a broken situation, a person, anything, then you can use 🧑‍🔧 in such contexts.
If you recently got a job as a mechanic or got a promotion in the job itself, then you can use 🧑‍🔧 to celebrate that achievement either in social media post captions or in text messages with your close circle.
Use 🧑‍🔧 while describing someone (who might look like this) and who is a mechanic.
If you've been a budding mechanic or a full-fledged professional, use 🧑‍🔧 in your profile name, one - to indicate that you work as a mechanic and two - to show that you're good with tools.
🧑‍🔧 can also be used while sharing your own every-day work schedule or even any achievements you might have had along the way.

Other Names

🧑‍🔧 Gender-Neutral Mechanic
🧑‍🔧 Technician
🧑‍🔧 Repairman
🧑‍🔧 Repair Person
🧑‍🔧 Blue Collar Employee
🧑‍🔧 Blue Collar Job
🧑‍🔧 Hardworking
🧑‍🔧 Machinist
🧑‍🔧 Mender
🧑‍🔧 Mechanician
🧑‍🔧 Grease Monkey (a terrible name, yes. But apparently its another name. Use it contextually and only if you're sure that the person does not mind).

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-role
Codepoints: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F527
Emoji version: Emoji 12.1
Shortcodes: :mechanic: Slack · Discord
Keywords: electrician, 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.