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🧑🔧Mechanic Emoji
Tagged electrician, plumber and tradesperson, 🧑🔧 mechanic sits in Unicode's Roles & Careers group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 12.1 (2019) at U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F527.
What 🧑🔧 mechanic means
Jobs and identities, and the largest subgroup in People & Body. Almost all of them are ZWJ sequences: 👨🍳 is literally a man plus a zero-width joiner plus 🍳. The professions arrived in 2016 as man and woman pairs, with gender-neutral versions following in 2019. Used for introductions, career news and dressing-up jokes.
Unicode tags this one electrician, plumber and tradesperson and files it under People & Body → Roles & Careers.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🧑🔧 is built
This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F527 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧑‍🔧 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧑‍🔧 | |
| CSS | \1F9D1\200D\1F527 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F527} | |
| Python | \U0001F9D1\U0000200D\U0001F527 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDD1\u200D\uD83D\uDD27 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9d1}\u{200d}\u{1f527} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F527} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F527} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%94%A7 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 91 E2 80 8D F0 9F 94 A7 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDD1 200D D83D DD27 | |
| Base64 | 8J+nkeKAjfCflKc= | |
| Decimal | 129489 8205 128295 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 12.1 (2019) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🧑🔧 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
- electrician
- plumber
- tradesperson
How to type 🧑🔧
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “mechanic”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “electrician”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9d1and 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 🧑🔧 mechanic emoji mean?+
🧑🔧 is the mechanic emoji, tagged electrician, plumber and tradesperson. Jobs and identities, and the largest subgroup in People & Body. Almost all of them are ZWJ sequences: 👨🍳 is literally a man plus a zero-width joiner plus 🍳. The professions arrived in 2016 as man and woman pairs, with gender-neutral versions following in 2019. Used for introductions, career news and dressing-up jokes.
What is the Unicode code for 🧑🔧?+
mechanic is U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F527. In HTML that is 🧑‍🔧, in CSS \1F9D1\200D\1F527, and in JavaScript \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F527}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧑🔧 emoji added?+
mechanic got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.1 (2019). 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 Roles & Careers in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 12.1 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧑🔧 mechanic.