Person rowing boat: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person sitting in a small rowboat, gripping a pair of wooden oars extended out over the water. This version features a medium-light skin tone, showing the figure mid-stroke as they propel the craft forward.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss water sports, leisure trips, or the act of rowing across a lake or river. It is a popular choice for fitness tracking or travel updates involving nature. People often pair it with 🌊 to show movement through water or 🛶 to distinguish between rowing and paddling sports.

History

The rowboat emoji was first added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0. The skin tone variants were introduced later in 2015, following a major push to make human emojis more representative of global diversity across digital messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph
🚣🏼
Unicode
U+1F6A3 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f6a3_1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person-sport
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Tags
boatcanoecruisefishinglakeoarpaddlepersonraftriverrowrowboatrowingwater sportsoutdoorsboating

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