Emoji Meaning
The shovel emoji most commonly represents concepts related to digging, construction, gardening, and manual labor. Here are some of its most popular meanings:
- Digging: This is the most literal meaning, representing the act of digging a hole, trench, or moving earth.
- Gardening: Often used in contexts related to planting, weeding, or general garden work.
- Construction & Manual Labor: Can symbolize construction work, excavation, or other jobs involving physical labor.
- "Digging up dirt" (figurative): Represents investigating or uncovering hidden information, often gossipy or scandalous.
- Burying something (figurative): Can represent hiding something, letting go of the past, or moving on from a difficult situation. Sometimes used with the 🪦 headstone emoji to symbolize death or loss.
- Snow removal: In winter contexts, it can symbolize shoveling snow.
- Minecraft: Frequently used by players of the game Minecraft, where a shovel is a key tool.
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Shovel Emoji Images
Here is how Shovel emoji looks like on iPhone, Android, Facebook, Messenger and X:
Tool Related Emoji
Here is a list of other emojis from the Objects category, Tool subcategory: