Man rowing boat: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A man with a medium-light skin tone seated inside a small rowboat, actively using two oars to propel the vessel. The design shows the boat floating on stylized blue water ripples.
Usage Context
Used to talk about outdoor recreation, water sports, summer vacations, or the act of rowing a boat. It is frequently sent when planning a trip to a lake or river, or to describe a situation where someone is working hard to 'row their own boat' through a difficult task. It pairs naturally with the water wave or fishing pole emojis.
History
This emoji was added in 2015 as part of Emoji 1.0, which introduced the ability to apply skin tone modifiers to human figures. The base version of the rowing man has been part of the Unicode standard since 2010, designed to represent traditional human-powered nautical transport.
Details
Glyph
🚣🏼♂
Unicode
U+1F6A3 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f6a3_1f3fc_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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