Mechanic 🧑‍🔧
Copy & Meaning

The mechanic emoji, depicting a person in work clothes alongside a wrench. This emoji is used to express mechanics, repair workers, and technicians. Common usage includes 'Car maintenance🧑‍🔧' 'Mechanic🧑‍🔧' or 'Repair shop🧑‍🔧' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019 as part of the profession emoji series.

Mechanics work in various fields including automotive repair, aircraft maintenance, marine repair, industrial machinery, and electrical equipment maintenance. The profession includes F1 mechanic pit crews, dealership car technicians, hobby mechanics tinkering with cars in their garages, and any setting involving machine work. Known by the wrench symbol, the emoji is used in posts about mechanical engineering, automobiles, vehicle inspections, repairs, DIY, custom cars, and maintenance. It's also used for children's career dreams of 'wanting to be a mechanic' or 'fixing things.' Skin tone modifiers can be applied to represent diverse mechanics.