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Shovel Emoji
Unicode added shovel in Emoji 16.0 (2024), filed under Objects → Tools. Its codepoint is U+1FA8F, and it is tagged bury, dig and garden.
What shovel 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 bury, dig and garden 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+1FA8F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🪏 | |
| HTML decimal | 🪏 | |
| CSS | \1FA8F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA8F} | |
| Python | \U0001FA8F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDE8F | |
| Rust | \u{1fa8f} | |
| Swift | \u{1FA8F} | |
| PHP | \u{1FA8F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DE8F | |
| Base64 | 8J+qjw== | |
| Decimal | 129679 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 16.0 (2024) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “shovel”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bury”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fa8fand 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 shovel emoji mean?+
is the shovel emoji, tagged bury, dig and garden. 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 ?+
shovel is U+1FA8F. In HTML that is 🪏, in CSS \1FA8F, and in JavaScript \u{1FA8F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the emoji added?+
shovel got its emoji presentation in Emoji 16.0 (2024). 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 16.0 (2024)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as shovel.