Man surfing: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-dark skin tone standing on a surfboard while riding a curling ocean wave. The figure is posed in a classic surfing stance, balancing atop the board as the water crests.

Usage Context

Used to talk about vacations, beach days, or water sports. It frequently appears when people share their travel plans or brag about catching good waves. It is often sent alongside related weather or activity icons like ☀️, 🌊, or 🏖️.

History

Surfing was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial emoji set. The specific gendered and skin-tone variations were introduced in 2016 to increase representation, allowing users to better reflect their own appearance when discussing outdoor activities.

Details

Glyph

🏄🏾‍♂

Unicode

U+1F3C4 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3c4_1f3fe_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFC4;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♂

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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