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hammer and wrench

Hammer and Wrench

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🛠️ shows a hammer crossed with a wrench (or spanner, if you say it the British way). It is a common emoji for tools, repair, maintenance, and DIY projects, or a quick way to say “I’m fixing it.” Because crossed tools are a familiar sign for tools and repair in software too, it also turns up for website maintenance and bug fixes, not just real toolboxes.

EmojiSince 2014

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What 🛠️ means

Hands-on repair, maintenance, building, or technical setup.

A single hammer () or wrench () points to one specific tool, but crossing the two creates a shorthand for an entire toolkit. People use it for weekend DIY, car repairs, home renovations, assembling flat-pack furniture, and trades like plumbing or carpentry.

It works just as naturally for digital work. Long before it became a color emoji, a crossed hammer and wrench was already a familiar computer icon for tools and repair. Because of that history, people often pair 🛠️ with software updates, server downtime notices, and troubleshooting.

Someone sent me 🛠️ — what are they saying?

They are working on the problem.

When a friend, coworker, or contractor replies to a complaint or request with 🛠️, read it as “I’m on it” or “fixing this now.” It signals effort under way—whether they are under the sink with a wrench, tweaking a draft, or patching a broken link.

Practical, capable, and task-focused; equally at home in casual texts and workplace updates.

It means “working on it,” not “fixed”—say so in words once the job is actually finished.

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What it means when someone sends it to you

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Maintenance or repairs are under way; the service may be down for a while.

Don't confuse it with

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🔨
Hammer
A single hammer points to carpentry, pounding nails, or playfully a judge’s gavel; 🛠️ covers the whole repair job.
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Wrench
A single wrench often suggests nuts and bolts or a small tweak; 🛠️ reads as a full toolkit.
⚒️
Hammer And Pick
Hammer and pick is a traditional symbol of mining and quarries; it sits right next to 🛠️ in emoji pickers and is easy to tap by mistake.
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Screwdriver
A screwdriver tends to suggest light assembly, electronics, or tightening a loose screw rather than general maintenance.

Combination ideas

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Home repair or renovation.
Software setup or repair.
Under maintenance, back soon.
Tools and settings: tweaking the setup.
Car maintenance, garage work, or a trip to the mechanic.

Worth knowing

  • Unicode adopted 🛠️ from Microsoft’s 1997 Webdings font, where the crossed hammer and spanner stood for tools or a repair facility.
  • Without its invisible emoji-style marker, some apps and fonts show it as a plain black-and-white symbol (🛠) instead of the color picture.

Questions people ask

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Why do software pages and GitHub READMEs use 🛠️?

It marks tooling, installation, or setup. As of 2026, developers often use it on GitHub and documentation pages to head sections listing required tools, configuration steps, or maintenance.

Does 🛠️ mean a problem is already fixed?

Usually no—it means repairs are under way. To say the job is finished, add a check mark (🛠️ or just say so.

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How to type or find 🛠️

Also called
hammer and spanner · tools emoji · crossed tools
Search it as
tools · repair · fix · maintenance · DIY · handyman · mechanic · settings
Type it as
:hammer_and_wrench:
Around since
2014 · Emoji 0.7
Shows up on
Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux
Windows
⊞Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “hammer and wrench”.
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard search “hammer and wrench”.
Chat apps
:hammer_and_wrench:Common shortcode in Slack, GitHub, Discord, Mattermost and other chat apps; a few apps use a different name.
HTML
🛠️
Phone
Open the emoji keyboard and search “hammer”, “tools” or “wrench”.
Windows / Mac
Windows key . (period) or Ctrl Cmd Space on a Mac, then search “hammer”.
Chat shortcode
Type :hammer_and_wrench: in apps that support shortcodes, such as Slack, Discord or GitHub.
Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
🛠️
HTML hex
🛠️
CSS content
content: "\1F6E0\FE0F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%9B%A0%EF%B8%8F
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On screen
2
Code points
3
JS .length
7
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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