Man swimming: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A man with dark skin performing a front crawl stroke, shown mid-movement as he glides through the water. He is typically depicted wearing blue swimming trunks and occasionally a swim cap.
Usage Context
Used to discuss fitness, training, or vacation plans involving a pool or the ocean. It is frequently sent as a shorthand for athletic commitment, such as training for a triathlon, or simply to signal that the sender is taking a break to go for a dip.
History
The base swimming emoji was added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The capability to modify this character with different skin tones arrived later, in Unicode 8.0, as part of a major initiative to make digital characters more representative of the global population.
Details
Glyph
🏊🏿♂
Unicode
U+1F3CA U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f3ca_1f3ff_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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