Category: Travel & Places

🏗️building construction

🏗️ building construction belongs to Travel & Places. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.

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Meaning

Depicts a building under construction with a crane, often used to represent building, development, or work in progress.

Aliases

:building_construction:

Keywords

buildingconstructioncranebuilding construction

What does 🏗️ building construction mean?

This emoji shows a building being constructed, typically featuring a tall crane. It is often used literally to talk about construction sites or urban development. Depending on context, it can also be used metaphorically to indicate that a project or idea is currently being developed.

Often used for

Talking about construction sites nearby
Discussing urban development or new buildings going up
Indicating a project or idea is a work in progress
Mentioning delays caused by building construction

Tone: The tone is generally neutral and informative. It can occasionally be used playfully to describe personal growth or a messy situation, but it is mostly used literally.

Illustrative message examples with 🏗️

These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.

ugh traffic is awful because of the 🏗️ on 5th street
my essay is still a 🏗️ but it's getting there
they finally started the 🏗️ on the new library
looks like the whole downtown is just one big 🏗️ zone now
website redesign is officially under 🏗️, stay tuned

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Emoji scenes

Construction Site

⁣   🏗️    ☁️
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🚜___👷‍♀️___🏗️
🪵🪵🧱🧱🪨🪨🧱
👷‍♂️____👷____👷‍♀️

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How 🏗️ building construction looks

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🏗️ building construction codes for developers

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Emoji	`🏗️`
Unicode codepoints	`U+1F3D7 U+FE0F`
HTML (decimal)	`🏗️`
HTML (hex)	`🏗️`
CSS	`\1F3D7\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{1F3D7}\u{FE0F}`
JSON	`\uD83C\uDFD7\uFE0F`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%8F%97%EF%B8%8F`
Shortcode (GitHub)	`:building_construction:`