U+1FA9A · emoji since 2020
The carpentry saw cuts through wood with its toothed blade. It means woodworking, DIY, and building things by hand.
It marks workshops and home projects, the tool for sawing planks down to size.
In texting, 🪚 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🪚 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Carpentry Saw emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the carpentry saw emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
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