Man juggling: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-dark skin depicted in motion, keeping three colorful balls in the air at once. The figure captures the moment of peak focus required to keep multiple objects moving simultaneously.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent being busy, overwhelmed by work, or juggling various life commitments. It serves as a visual shorthand for multitasking or maintaining balance under pressure, and is often used alongside emojis like 😵‍💫 to show stress or 🎭 to denote performance art.

History

Juggling has been documented since ancient Egyptian times, but the emoji itself arrived in Unicode 10.0 in 2017. The gendered and skin-tone variations were added shortly after to better reflect the diversity of performers and the universal nature of the 'juggling act' metaphor.

Details

Glyph

🤹🏾‍♂

Unicode

U+1F939 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f939_1f3fe_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD39;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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