🪏️ Shovel emoji

The shovel emoji represents digging, gardening, construction, yard work and manual labor. It can be used for planting, clearing soil, building work or burying something.

It fits alongside tool emoji for practical work and outdoor tasks.

Could also be called spade, digging tool or garden shovel emoji.

Other meanings

Can suggest hard work, digging deeper, construction, gardening, burial or cleanup.

Example Usage

Need to dig out the garden bed today 🪏

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Visual description

A shovel with a long handle and a metal digging blade.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.