⚙️ Gear

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Emoji Meaning

1

A round metal gear with toothed edges, commonly used as a general icon for tools.

2

This multi-toothed component, commonly called a pinion or gear, is a key part of many machines. It transmits the rotational force (torque) and adjusts the gear ratio, changing speed and power between connected parts.

You’ll find such parts inside mechanical watches and alarm clocks, in cars and motorcycles, in kitchen appliances, and countless other devices. Figuratively, a gear is often used to illustrate the process of thinking.

Apple Name

  • ⚙️ Gear

Unicode Name

  • ⚙️ Gear

⚙️ Emoji Codes

Codepoints

U+2699 U+FE0F

Shortcodes

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For developers

URL escape code %E2%9A%99%EF%B8%8F
Punycode xn--x7h
Bytes (UTF-8) E2 9A 99 EF B8 8F
JavaScript, JSON, Java \u2699\uFE0F
C, C++, Python \u2699\uFE0F
CSS \2699 \FE0F
PHP, Ruby \u{2699}\u{FE0F}
Perl \x{2699}\x{FE0F}
HTML hex ⚙️
HTML dec ⚙️

Tags: cog, cogwheel, gear, tool

Category: Objects

Subgroup: Tools