Emoji
(BRICK): meaning and Unicode code
Meaning of the emoji
(BRICK), Unicode code, HTML entity, and usage examples. Copy the symbol with one click.

Information about emoji BRICK
- Unicode Name
- BRICK
- Unicode Codepoint
- U+1F9F1
- Category
- Travel & Places
- Subcategory
- place-building
- Slug
- bricks
Meaning and description of emoticon 🧱
The 🧱 emoji depicts several stacked rectangular building bricks. Part of the Unicode standard, "Objects" category.
🧱 is usually used to show a building, a specific point in a city, and a recognizable city location. Paired with 🏙 📍 🗺 it becomes more accurate, and examples like “What is important here is the place itself and the fact that it is read as a specific city point 🧱” conveys this well. A close shade is given by 🏢, 🏠, 🏛, but 🧱 remains the most expressive option. A sign is appropriate when you need to show a building, a city point, a destination or a recognizable location. The subtext of 🧱 often appears from the context: such emoji often denote not only an object, but the role of a place in a route, memory or city life.
Usage Examples 🧱
| Format | Code | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortcode (Slack) | :bricks: | |
| Shortcode (Discord) | :bricks: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :bricks: | |
| HTML Dec | 🧱 | |
| HTML Hex | 🧱 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9F1"; | |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001F9F1 | |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83E\uDDF1 | |
| Perl | \x{1F9F1} | |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F9F1} | |
| Punycode | xn--7v9h | |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%A7%B1 | |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A7 B1 |