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🧰Toolbox Emoji
The toolbox emoji 🧰 carries the codepoint U+1F9F0 and has been in the standard since Emoji 11.0 (2018). It belongs to Objects → Tools.
What 🧰 toolbox 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 box, chest and mechanic 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+1F9F0 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧰 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧰 | |
| CSS | \1F9F0 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9F0} | |
| Python | \U0001F9F0 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDF0 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9f0} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9F0} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9F0} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%B0 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 B0 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDF0 | |
| Base64 | 8J+nsA== | |
| Decimal | 129520 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🧰
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “toolbox”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “box”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9f0and 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 🧰 toolbox emoji mean?+
🧰 is the toolbox emoji, tagged box, chest and mechanic. 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 🧰?+
toolbox is U+1F9F0. In HTML that is 🧰, in CSS \1F9F0, and in JavaScript \u{1F9F0}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧰 emoji added?+
toolbox got its emoji presentation in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧰 toolbox.