Man rowing boat: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A person with medium-dark skin rowing a small boat with two oars. The graphic depicts a side-view of a wooden rowboat gliding through the water, with the rower pulling backward on the blades to generate momentum.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to discuss water sports, rowing teams, or calm outdoor activities like fishing or lake excursions. It also serves as a visual metaphor for 'rowing your own boat' through difficult situations or working hard to get where you need to go. It pairs well with other water-based imagery like 🌊 or 🎣.
History
The base rowing boat icon was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The option to select specific skin tones and genders arrived later in 2016 with Unicode 9.0, reflecting a shift toward more diverse representation in digital communication as platforms moved away from the default yellow-only characters.
Details
Glyph
🚣🏾♂
Unicode
U+1F6A3 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f6a3_1f3fe_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
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
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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