⛏️
⛏️ Pick
Also known as: Pickaxe
Unicode: U+26CF, U+FE0F
Description
A pickaxe, a tool with a curved spike for breaking up rocks in mining. Generally depicted with a metal head and wooden handle, positioned at a 45° angle with the head at the upper left. May be used for various content concerning building, construction, digging, mining, or rock climbing. Not to be confused with 🔨 Hammer or Axe.
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:5.2
Keywords
miningpicktool
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :pick: | |
| GitHub | :pick: | |
| Slack | :pick: | |
| Discord | :pick: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols -> Traffic sign from ARIB STD B24
Definition:
Pick was approved as part of Unicode 5.2 in 2009 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Copy and paste this emoji: Copy http://emojipedia.org/pick/
Verbs:
- Turn up, loosen, or remove earth
Nouns:
- The act, process or industry of extracting coal, ores, etc. from the earth.
- The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
- Activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
- Extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth
- The extraction of geological materials from the Earth.
- The removal of earth from its natural position.
- Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, or reef, which forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner.
- A large deposit of a mineral or minerals, below the earth's crust.
- A sector of the economy in which an aggregate of commercial enterprises is engaged in the extraction of minerals occurring naturally, often involving quarrying, well operations, milling, exploration and development.
- The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
- Waste material resulting from ore extraction that is usually left on the soil surface.
- Physical item that can be used to achieve a goal