# 🧱 Brick emoji

🧱 Brick is an emoji in the buildings set of Travel & places. It was added in Emoji 11.0 in 2018. Related words: bricks, clay, mortar and wall.

- Emoji: 🧱
- Unicode name: brick
- Code points: U+1F9F1
- Category: Travel & places, Buildings
- Added: Emoji 11.0 (2018)
- GitHub shortcode: :bricks:
- Keywords: brick, bricks, clay, mortar, wall
- Page: https://emojichart.com/brick-emoji

## What it means

A reddish-brown clay brick, or a few stacked like part of a wall, the basic building block of houses. People use it for construction, masonry, building materials and walls, and figuratively for solid foundations, barriers or building something piece by piece.

## How to type 🧱

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “brick”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “brick”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “brick”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “brick”.
- GitHub: Type :bricks: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | ladrillo | arcilla, cemento, ladrillo, muro, pared |
| Français (fr) | brique | argile, brique, briques, mortier, mur, mur de briques, the wall, voie 9 3/4 |
| Deutsch (de) | Ziegelstein | bauen, Grenze, Klinker, Mauer, Mauerwerk, Mörtel, Wand, Ziegel, Ziegelstein, Ziegelsteine, zugemauert |
| Italiano (it) | mattoni | argilla, malta, mattone, mattoni, muro, muro di mattoni |
| Português (pt) | tijolo | argamassa, argila, cimento, muro, parede, terra, tijolo |
| Nederlands (nl) | baksteen | baksteen, bakstenen, cement, gemetseld, klei, metselen, mortel, muur, steen |
| Svenska (sv) | tegelsten | bruk, lera, tegelsten, tegelstenar, tegelstensvägg, vägg |
| Polski (pl) | cegła | beton, cegła, cegły, cement, glina, mur, murek, płot, ściana, zaprawa |
| Türkçe (tr) | tuğla | duvar, duvar örmek, harç, inşaat, kil, kiremit, kırmızı, seramik, taş, tuğla, tuğlalar |
| Русский (ru) | кирпичи | глина, кирпич, кирпичи, кирпичная, кирпичный, кладка, стена |
| Українська (uk) | цегла | будівельний розчин, глина, розчин, стіна, цегла, цеглина, цеглини |
| Ελληνικά (el) | τούβλο | ασβεστοκονίαμα, πηλός, σοβάς, τοίχος, τούβλα, τούβλο |
| العربية (ar) | طوبة | أحجار, أسمنت, حائط, حجارة, حيط, سد, طمي, طوب, طوبة, طين, ملاط, مونة |
| עברית (he) | לבנה | בלוקים, בריק, חומה, לבנה, לבנים, מלט, קירות |
| فارسی (fa) | دیوار آجری | آجر, آجری, دیوار, ساروج, سفال, ملاط |
| हिन्दी (hi) | ईंट | ईंट, घर, दीवार, मिट्टी, मोर्टार |
| বাংলা (bn) | ইট | ইট, ওয়াল, কাদামাটি, দেয়াল, পোড়ামাটি, পোড়ামাটির দেওয়াল, প্রাচীর, হামানদিস্তা |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | batu bata | bata, batu bata, dinding, lempung, mortar, semen, tanah liat, tanah merah |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | gạch | đất sét, gạch, tường, vữa |
| ไทย (th) | ก้อนอิฐ | ก้อนอิฐ, กำแพง, ดิน, ปูน |
| 日本語 (ja) | れんが | しっくい, ブロック, モルタル, れんが, 壁, 煉瓦, 粘土 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 벽돌 | 담벼락, 모르타르, 벽, 벽돌, 빨간 벽돌, 클레이 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 砖 | 墙, 砂浆, 砖, 黏土 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 磚塊 | 泥土, 灰泥, 灰漿, 牆, 牆壁, 磚, 磚塊 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): baksteenmuur
- Akan (ak): bereke
- Albanian (sq): tullë
- Amharic (am): ሸክላ
- Armenian (hy): աղյուս
- Assamese (as): ইটা
- Azerbaijani (az): kərpic
- Bashkir (ba): кирбестәр
- Basque (eu): adreilu
- Belarusian (be): цагліна
- Bosnian (bs): cigla
- Breton (br): brikenn
- Bulgarian (bg): тухла
- Burmese (my): အုတ်
- Cantonese (yue): 磚
- Cantonese (Simplified) (yue-Hans): 砖
- Catalan (ca): totxo
- Cherokee (chr): ᏅᏯᎠᏛᏓᏔᏅᎯ
- Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR China) (zh-Hant-HK): 磚頭
- Chuvash (cv): кирпӗч
- Croatian (hr): cigle
- Czech (cs): cihly
- Danish (da): mursten
- Estonian (et): telliskivi
- Faroese (fo): múrsteinur
- Filipino (fil): brick
- Finnish (fi): tiili
- Galician (gl): ladrillo
- Georgian (ka): აგური
- Gujarati (gu): ઈંટ
- Hausa (ha): bulo
- Hungarian (hu): tégla
- Icelandic (is): múrsteinn
- Igbo (ig): brik
- Irish (ga): bríce
- Javanese (jv): bata
- Kannada (kn): ಇಟ್ಟಿಗೆ
- Kazakh (kk): кірпіш
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): كىرپىش
- Khmer (km): ដុំឥដ្ឋ
- Konkani (kok): चिरो
- Kyrgyz (ky): кирпич
- Lao (lo): ກ້ອນດິນຈີ່
- Latvian (lv): ķieģelis
- Lithuanian (lt): plyta
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): cygel
- Macedonian (mk): тула
- Malay (ms): bata
- Malayalam (ml): ചുടുകട്ട
- Marathi (mr): वीट
- Mexican Spanish (es-MX): ladrillos
- Mongolian (mn): тоосго
- Nepali (ne): ईँटा
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Brík
- Norwegian (no): murstein
- Odia (or): ଇଟା
- Oromo (om): xuubii
- Pashto (ps): خښته
- Punjabi (pa): ਇੱਟ
- Quechua (qu): pirqa
- Romanian (ro): cărămidă
- Romansh (rm): mir da quadrels
- Sardinian (sc): matone
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): breige
- Serbian (sr): цигла
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): cigla
- Shan (shn): မၢၵ်ႇဢုတ်ႇ
- Sindhi (sd): سر
- Sinhala (si): ගඩොල්
- Slovak (sk): tehla
- Slovenian (sl): opeka
- Somali (so): bulukeeti
- Swahili (sw): tofali
- Tamil (ta): செங்கல்
- Telugu (te): ఇటుక
- Tigrinya (ti): ሕጡብ
- Tongan (to): piliki
- Turkmen (tk): kerpiç
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): cyhel
- Urdu (ur): اینٹ
- Uzbek (uz): g‘ishtin
- Welsh (cy): bricsen
- Yoruba (yo): bíríkì
- Zulu (zu): isitini

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F9F1` |
| HTML | `🧱` |
| CSS | `\1F9F1` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F9F1}` |
| Python | `\U0001F9F1` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F A7 B1` |
| UTF-16 | `D83E DDF1` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%A7%B1` |

## Questions

### What does the 🧱 brick emoji mean?

A reddish-brown clay brick, or a few stacked like part of a wall, the basic building block of houses. People use it for construction, masonry, building materials and walls, and figuratively for solid foundations, barriers or building something piece by piece.

### How do I type the 🧱 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “brick”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :bricks:.

### When was the 🧱 emoji added?

🧱 was added in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🧱?

U+1F9F1. In HTML you can write 🧱, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F9F1}.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/brick-emoji