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🪏 Shovel Emoji

Emoji Meaning

Meaning

A manual digging tool depicted with a long wooden handle and a broad, slightly curved metal blade at the end. The shovel is shown in a classic spade design, typically used for digging, lifting, and moving materials like soil, sand, or snow. Part of Unicode 16.0's tools category, this emoji represents both practical yard work tools and metaphorical concepts of groundbreaking or foundation-laying.

Common Uses

  • Indicating gardening activities: 'Time to plant the spring bulbs 🪏'
  • Discussing snow removal: 'Another winter storm, back to shoveling 🪏'
  • Referencing construction or digging: 'Breaking ground on our new project 🪏'

Example Sentences

  • Garden Center Notice: Don't forget your tools! Shovels available in aisle 3 🪏
  • Weekend project: building a new flower bed 🪏 Let the digging begin!
  • Snow day alert! Don't forget to clear your walkways 🪏

Technical Details

Unicode

U+1FA8F

Name

Shovel

Short Name

:shovel:

Unicode Version

16.0

Release Year

2024

Category

Objects

Subcategory

Tool

Platform Support

Google

Has Skin Tones

Yes

Platform Renderings

Browser default rendering

Browser

Unicode standard sample

Unicode

Keywords

burydiggardenholeplantscoopshovelsnowspade

SVG Code

<svg width="128" height="128" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <text
    x="64"
    y="64"
    font-size="96"
    text-anchor="middle"
    dominant-baseline="middle"
    font-family="serif"
  >🪏</text>
</svg>