Person surfing: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-dark skin depicted riding a surfboard across a blue ocean wave. The figure is balanced in a classic surfing stance, typically leaning forward with arms outstretched for stability.

Usage Context

Used to talk about beach trips, summer vacations, or the sport of surfing itself. It’s frequently shared alongside 🌊 to describe a day at the ocean or to convey a sense of adventure, thrill-seeking, and catching the perfect swell.

History

Surfing was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial emoji wave designed to bring common outdoor activities to digital messaging. The ability to modify the skin tone of the surfer was introduced in 2015 as part of the broader effort to provide more inclusive representation in human-based emojis.

Details

Glyph
🏄🏾
Unicode
U+1F3C4 U+1F3FE
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f3c4_1f3fe:
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
beachoceanpersonsportsurfsurfersurfingswellwavessummerwater sportsvacationathlete

Microsoft Fluent License

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