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🏗️Building Construction Emoji
🏗️ building construction — U+1F3D7 U+FE0F, added in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Unicode groups it with the other 27 buildings emojis under Travel & Places.
What 🏗️ building construction means
Buildings mark a place in a story: 🏠 for home, 🏥 for a hospital visit, 🏫 for school runs, 🏦 for money talk. The set is visibly inherited from Japanese carrier emoji — Unicode carries both 🏣 Japanese post office and 🏤 post office as separate characters, and 🏩 love hotel exists because the source sets had one.
Unicode tags this one building, construction and crane and files it under Travel & Places → Buildings.
Copy variants
building construction carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🏗️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🏗U+1F3D7building construction
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3D7 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏗️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🏗️ | |
| CSS | \1F3D7\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3D7}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F3D7\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFD7\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f3d7}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3D7}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3D7}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%97%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F 97 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFD7 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Pl++4jw== | |
| Decimal | 127959 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
- building
- construction
- crane
Appears in these collections
How to type 🏗️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “building construction”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “building”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3d7and Enter. - HTML — paste
🏗️.
How 🏗️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🏗️Apple
- 🏗️Segoe
- 🏗️Noto
- 🏗️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🏗️ building construction emoji mean?+
🏗️ is the building construction emoji, tagged building, construction and crane. Buildings mark a place in a story: 🏠 for home, 🏥 for a hospital visit, 🏫 for school runs, 🏦 for money talk. The set is visibly inherited from Japanese carrier emoji — Unicode carries both 🏣 Japanese post office and 🏤 post office as separate characters, and 🏩 love hotel exists because the source sets had one.
What is the Unicode code for 🏗️?+
building construction is U+1F3D7 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🏗️, in CSS \1F3D7\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F3D7}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏗️ emoji added?+
building construction got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Buildings in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏗️ building construction.