Man playing handball: light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a light skin tone mid-motion, preparing to throw or catch a small ball. This figure depicts a player in the middle of a handball match, capturing the intensity of the sport through a dynamic, lunging stance.

Usage Context

Used to discuss team sports, physical training, or the specific game of handball. It is frequently sent by athletes to signal they are headed to practice or to comment on a match, often paired with the 🤾 or ⚽ emojis to emphasize the competitive nature of the activity.

History

Handball has been a fixture of international competition for decades, but this specific emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of an effort to broaden the representation of diverse sports and human body types within digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

🤾🏻‍♂

Unicode

U+1F93E U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93e_1f3fb_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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