Person surfing: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-light skin riding a surfboard across a blue ocean wave. The figure is shown balanced on their feet, leaning slightly into a turn to navigate the swell.

Usage Context

Used to describe trips to the beach, summer vacations, or an interest in water sports. It is frequently sent alongside related coastal imagery like 🌊, 🏖️, or ☀️ to signal a day spent out on the water.

History

Surfing was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of a push to broaden the range of sports and recreational activities represented in digital communication. The skin tone modifiers were introduced later in 2015 to allow for greater diversity in character representation.

Details

Glyph

🏄🏼

Unicode

U+1F3C4 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3c4_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFC4;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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