U+1F528 "🔨" Hammer Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🔨
U+1F528 "🔨" Hammer is a pictorial glyph representing a standard claw hammer, typically used in digital communication to symbolize tools, construction, repair, or the act of building and fixing things. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is encoded as emoji, allowing it to convey a sense of manual labor, craftsmanship, or the concept of "hitting the nail on the head" metaphorically. This character is widely supported across modern platforms and messaging systems, where it serves both literal and figurative meanings in text and chat.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F528 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Hammer |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🔨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🔨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F528 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd28 |