Pickaxe Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Pick is U+26CF U+FE0F, Emoji 0.7, in the group Objects, subgroup tool, between Axe and Hammer and pick. CLDR gives it four words (hammer, mining, pick, tool) and files no other emoji under mining; under pick it files seven emoji (Palm down hand, the three forms of Person raising hand, Hair pick, Pick, Hammer and pick). No emoji name and no CLDR search word is pickaxe, pickax, mine, miner, digging, quarry, ore, coal or cave; the one emoji under dig is Shovel. Hammer and pick is U+2692 U+FE0F, Emoji 1.0, filed under hammer, pick and tool. The skin tones are the five rows emoji-test.txt lists for each hand. Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): three names hold the word pick (Hammer and pick, Pick, Hair pick) and none holds pickaxe. Unicode's notes (Pick: under construction, with cross-references to Hammer and pick and Construction sign; Hammer and pick: mining, working day (in timetables); Building construction: under construction) are from NamesList.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); U+26CF dates from Unicode 5.2 and U+2692 from 4.1 by DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt); both have a text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. The four Han characters are defined as in the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). Code page 437, which the old Alt codes follow, has no pick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437). That some apps take decimal Alt numbers from 256 to 65,535 is from Wikipedia, Alt code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code); U+26CF is 9935 in decimal. The mining words and the sayings are as Wiktionary gives them (CC BY-SA 4.0): pickaxe (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pickaxe), pick (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pick), pickax (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pickax), mattock (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mattock), miner (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/miner), mine (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mine), quarry (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quarry), ore (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ore), lode (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lode), mother lode (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mother_lode), prospector (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prospector), pay dirt (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pay_dirt), bedrock (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bedrock), strike gold (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/strike_gold), hit pay dirt (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hit_pay_dirt), dig deep (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dig_deep), rock bottom (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rock_bottom), take one's pick (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_one's_pick), nitpick (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nitpick). The four typed picks, the two drawings, the eight lines and the thirteen combos are this site's own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, with definitions from the Unihan database, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.