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🔩Nut And Bolt Emoji
🔩 is the nut and bolt emoji, U+1F529, one of 27 in the Tools set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for bolt, home and improvement.
What 🔩 nut and bolt 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 bolt, home and improvement 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+1F529 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🔩 | |
| HTML decimal | 🔩 | |
| CSS | \1F529 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F529} | |
| Python | \U0001F529 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD29 | |
| Rust | \u{1f529} | |
| Swift | \u{1F529} | |
| PHP | \u{1F529} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%94%A9 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 A9 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD29 | |
| Base64 | 8J+UqQ== | |
| Decimal | 128297 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🔩
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “nut and bolt”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bolt”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f529and 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 🔩 nut and bolt emoji mean?+
🔩 is the nut and bolt emoji, tagged bolt, home and improvement. 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 🔩?+
nut and bolt is U+1F529. In HTML that is 🔩, in CSS \1F529, and in JavaScript \u{1F529}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🔩 emoji added?+
nut and bolt got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🔩 nut and bolt.