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🏗️ Building construction

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🏗️ Emoji meaning

In progress! Under construction, construction work, construction site, or new project.

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🏗️ Meaning

Symbol of construction work. Represents the construction of buildings of any kind, from skyscrapers to office buildings. Might say that you are just starting over or working on a project.

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Building construction

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House vs building construction; both building-related icons, used for property or construction topics.

Building construction

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Tokyo tower vs building construction; both tall tower-like structures with scaffolding-style detail.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Building construction” was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 and added to Emoji 0.7 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ building + crane

Keywords removed

- building construction

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ building construction

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ construction

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