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🪜Ladder Emoji
🪜 ladder is encoded at U+1FA9C and shipped with Emoji 13.0 (2020). Unicode files it under Objects → Tools, alongside 26 related emojis.
What 🪜 ladder means
Building, fixing and the general language of effort, plus a few weapons carried over from older icon sets. 🔨 and 🛠️ mark work in progress, ⚙️ stands for systems and settings, and ⚖️ appears in arguments about law and fairness. Emoji 15.1 added the broken chain ⛓️💥 in 2023, formed by joining the existing chains to the collision symbol, and it reads as breaking free.
Unicode tags this one climb, rung and step and files it under Objects → Tools.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FA9C | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🪜 | |
| HTML decimal | 🪜 | |
| CSS | \1FA9C | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA9C} | |
| Python | \U0001FA9C | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDE9C | |
| Rust | \u{1fa9c} | |
| Swift | \u{1FA9C} | |
| PHP | \u{1FA9C} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%9C | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 9C | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DE9C | |
| Base64 | 8J+qnA== | |
| Decimal | 129692 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 13.0 (2020) | |
Keywords
- climb
- rung
- step
Appears in these collections
How to type 🪜
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “ladder”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “climb”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fa9cand 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 🪜 ladder emoji mean?+
🪜 is the ladder emoji, tagged climb, rung and step. Building, fixing and the general language of effort, plus a few weapons carried over from older icon sets. 🔨 and 🛠️ mark work in progress, ⚙️ stands for systems and settings, and ⚖️ appears in arguments about law and fairness. Emoji 15.1 added the broken chain ⛓️💥 in 2023, formed by joining the existing chains to the collision symbol, and it reads as breaking free.
What is the Unicode code for 🪜?+
ladder is U+1FA9C. In HTML that is 🪜, in CSS \1FA9C, and in JavaScript \u{1FA9C}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🪜 emoji added?+
ladder got its emoji presentation in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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 Tools in Objects.
Added in Emoji 13.0 (2020)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🪜 ladder.