Man playing handball: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned man in a mid-throw position, captured as if he is launching a ball during a handball game. He is depicted wearing a jersey and shorts, frozen in the action of preparing to score or pass.

Usage Context

Used to discuss professional sports, gym workouts, or casual games of handball. It serves as a go-to icon for anyone talking about throwing, pitching, or team-based athletics. Users often pair this with 🤾 to show a teammate or 🏟️ to set the scene for a match.

History

This emoji was introduced in 2016 as part of Unicode 9.0. It arrived during a major push to make character sets more inclusive by allowing skin tone modifiers to be applied to human-form sports icons, ensuring better representation of athletes across diverse demographics.

Details

Glyph

🤾🏿‍♂

Unicode

U+1F93E U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93e_1f3ff_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍♂

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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