Person cartwheeling: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A figure caught in mid-motion, upside down with limbs extended, performing a cartwheel. The skin tone is adjusted to a medium shade, and the character wears a simple shirt and shorts.

Usage Context

This emoji serves as a shorthand for physical activity, gymnastics, or showing off a burst of high energy. It is frequently sent to express excitement, playfulness, or to describe a literal attempt at a gymnastic maneuver. It pairs well with other active characters like 🤸 or 🤸‍♂️ to illustrate movement or athletic training.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0, the cartwheeling person was introduced alongside a wide range of gender and skin tone modifiers to help users better represent themselves in digital communication. Its creation followed a push to diversify the human-based emoji library beyond the standard yellow stick figures.

Details

Glyph

🤸🏽

Unicode

U+1F938 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f938_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD38;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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

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