Gear Emoji
This emoji shows a round gear known as a cog, which rotates to produce power for machinery or other mechanical instruments.
Gear is a fully-qualified emoji, part of Unicode 1.0 , and was added to Emoji 1.0 .
This emoji is part of the Objects and is grouped with other Tool emojis. Part of the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block. Introduced in 2015.
Copy and paste the Gear emoji:
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Codes & Encoding for the Gear Emoji
Click any code below to copy it to your clipboard.
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Codepoint
U+2699 U+FE0F✓ Copied -
HTML (decimal)
⚙️✓ Copied -
HTML (hex)
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CSS
\2699\FE0F✓ Copied -
JavaScript
\u{2699}\u{FE0F}✓ Copied -
URL-encoded
%E2%9A%99%EF%B8%8F✓ Copied -
Shortcode
:gear:✓ Copied - Unicode block Miscellaneous Symbols
How to Type the Gear Emoji
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iOS Use the emoji keyboard (globe icon → smiley)
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Android Use Gboard's emoji keyboard, or type the emoji's name
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Windows Win + . opens the emoji picker
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macOS Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the character viewer
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Linux Ctrl + Shift + e then codepoint, or use IBus picker
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Web Paste the character or use an emoji-picker library
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Slack Type :gear: (autocompletes to the emoji)
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Discord Type :gear: (autocompletes to the emoji)
Gear Emoji on Different Platforms
How to Use the Gear Emoji
- Adjusting the gear ⚙️ on my bike
- The machine's gear ⚙️ is jammed
- Learn how a gear ⚙️ works in engineering class