What does 🧱 Brick mean?
A red clay brick, the kind used for walls and chimneys. Literally it covers building, DIY and masonry. Figuratively it means hitting a brick wall, being stubborn, or building something brick by brick. In basketball slang a “brick” is a badly missed shot, and in tech a “bricked” device no longer works at all. In some New York slang, “brick” also means freezing cold.
🧱 Brick is an emoji from the Travel & Places category (buildings), added in Emoji 11.0 in 2018. People use it in messages about bricks, clay, mortar and wall.
Example messages
🧱 Brick on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Brick looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Brick emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🧱 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :bricks:.
When was the Brick emoji added?
🧱 Brick was added in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🧱 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Brick. The underlying code (U+1F9F1) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.