Person playing handball: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned athlete caught in the motion of throwing a ball, shown mid-leap with their arm drawn back. The figure wears a sporty outfit, capturing the fast-paced nature of team handball.

Usage Context

Used to discuss sports, physical training, or the specific game of handball. Because the pose mimics a forceful throw, it is frequently used to represent tossing an object, lobbing a pass, or participating in intense physical activity alongside other sports icons like 🏀 or 🏐.

History

This emoji was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. It is part of a larger set of athlete emojis that adopted the Fitzpatrick scale modifiers, allowing users to customize skin tones to better represent the global diversity of competitive sports players.

Details

Glyph

🤾🏿

Unicode

U+1F93E U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93e_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

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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