Man rowing boat: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium skin tone sitting in a small rowboat, gripping a pair of oars with both hands as if mid-stroke. The boat is typically shown navigating calm blue water.

Usage Context

Used to talk about outdoor recreation, rowing sports, or simply spending time on the lake. It is frequently sent when someone is heading out for a day of fishing, going on a vacation to a river, or practicing as part of a crew team. It works well alongside 🚣 or 🌊 to set a watery scene.

History

Rowboat icons have been a staple of digital communication since the early days of Japanese mobile carriers. This specific version, utilizing gender and skin tone modifiers, was added to the Unicode standard in 2015 to allow for more accurate representation of people participating in water sports.

Details

Glyph

🚣🏽‍♂

Unicode

U+1F6A3 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6a3_1f3fd_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEA3;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍♂

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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