A round metal gear with teeth.
Used to talk about tools and engineering (both hardware and software). Also commonly used to indicate settings on user interfaces. May also represent hard work, e.g., grinding in sports.
Samsung’s design originally featured a white gear icon on a green square.
Gear was approved as part of Unicode 4.1 in 2005 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
U+2699
U+FE0F
⚙️ Gear
⚙️ Variation selector-16