shovel
A shovel is a hand tool with a broad, scooped blade on a long handle, used for digging, lifting, and moving loose material such as soil, sand, or snow
Meaning
A shovel is a hand tool with a broad, scooped blade on a long handle, used for digging, lifting, and moving loose material such as soil, sand, or snow. In conversation it commonly represents gardening, planting, digging holes, or clearing snow. It can also convey burying something, literal or figurative, and is sometimes used for hard manual work or getting a task underway. Usage is generally straightforward, though it can appear in jokes about hiding or covering things up, where the tone is often playful rather than serious.
Shovel — Approved as part of Emoji 16.0 in 2024.
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Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.
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Unicode data
U+1FA8FshovelF0 9F AA 8FShortcodes
:shovel:HTML & CSS
🪏🪏\1FA8F Languages
\u{1FA8F}\U0001FA8F\x{1FA8F}\u{1FA8F}Encodings
xn--q09h%F0%9F%AA%8FFrequently asked
What does shovel mean?
A shovel is a hand tool with a broad, scooped blade on a long handle, used for digging, lifting, and moving loose material such as soil, sand, or snow. In conversation it commonly represents gardening, planting, digging holes, or clearing snow. It can also convey burying something, literal or figurative, and is sometimes used for hard manual work or getting a task underway. Usage is generally straightforward, though it can appear in jokes about hiding or covering things up, where the tone is often playful rather than serious.
What are the Unicode codepoints and shortcode for shovel?
U+1FA8F (Unicode 16.0, 2024) · :shovel:
Which emojis are related to shovel?
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