⛏️

Pick Emoji ⛏️

A pickaxe with a wooden handle, known to a whole generation as the tool you swing at a block of stone in Minecraft. Unicode approved the symbol back in 2009, years before it reached a phone keyboard in 2015, and the crossed version at ⚒️ Hammer and Pick carries an older mining and heraldry meaning instead.

What ⛏️ means

A grey pickaxe with a black handle, designed with a double-ended sharp 'boomerang' kind of a structure for the main tool. The ⛏️ Pick emoji signifies mining. Hence, it could symbolize the act of 'digging' up, digging out, unearthing, (re)surfacing, or even picking something out.

How and when to use it

If you're sharing a post or repost, the caption or the post message of which is 'digging', you can use ⛏️ - "Keep digging ⛏️ You might just be a few feet from gold" or "Diggers are apparently keepers in here! ⛏️".
You could also use ⛏️ while putting up captions or sending text messages about 'surfacing', 'resurfacing', or even 'unearthing' something. For example, "The problem is, that you think you are hollow. That void might just be an unearthed site of magic ⛏️".
If you dig something, you may use ⛏️. Like, "Man. Totally loved the quiche. The kids madly dig it ⛏️" or "Absolutely digging the idea! ⛏️".
Besides mining, ⛏️ can be used in gardening contexts too. So, if you're sharing informative content, aesthetic content, educative posts, etc, on the art of gardening, use this emoji.
⛏️ would be the perfect emoji for gold diggers and gold-digging as well.

Other Names

⛏️ Pickaxe
⛏️ Mining Tool
⛏️ Mining Pick
⛏️ Miner's Pick
⛏️ Railroad Pick
⛏️ Gardening Pick
⛏️ Digging Tool
⛏️ Mattock

The lowdown

Category: Objects › tool
Codepoints: U+26CF U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :pick: GitHub
Keywords: hammer, mining, 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.