Horse racing: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A jockey with light-to-medium skin wearing a helmet and silks, crouched forward on a galloping horse mid-stride. The rider is captured in a classic racing posture, leaning into the horse's neck to maintain balance and speed.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for discussing professional horse racing, betting, or the Kentucky Derby. It is also used to express a sense of urgency or 'racing' toward a deadline. It pairs naturally with 🏆 when celebrating a win or 🏇 for generic equestrian discussions.

History

Horse racing has been a staple of human competition for centuries, and this emoji was added to the Unicode standard to capture the excitement of traditional spectator sports. The skin-tone modifier was introduced in 2015 as part of an effort to provide greater representation across the vast array of emojis depicting human figures.

Details

Glyph

🏇🏼

Unicode

U+1F3C7 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3c7_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFC7;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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