Man playing water polo: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-dark skin tone depicted mid-action as he prepares to throw a water polo ball. He wears a swim cap and has his arm cocked back, ready to launch the ball across the pool.

Usage Context

Used to discuss water sports, swimming competitions, or aquatic fitness. It is frequently sent during the Summer Olympics or when friends are planning a trip to the pool. It is often grouped with other aquatic sports like 🏊 or 🤽 to indicate a day spent in the water.

History

Water polo was one of the first team sports added to the modern Olympic program in 1900. This specific emoji variant was introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 to provide greater representation for different skin tones within the athletic category of the emoji set.

Details

Glyph

🤽🏾‍♂

Unicode

U+1F93D U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93d_1f3fe_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3D;&#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

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