Person playing handball: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure depicted in a mid-air motion, winding up to throw a ball with one hand. This version features a medium-light skin tone to represent a specific demographic in sports communication.

Usage Context

Used to discuss handball matches, gym class activities, or the physical act of throwing something. It is frequently sent when talking about team sports or athletic training, often appearing alongside ⚽ or 🏀 to group various ball-based games together.

History

Handball was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the expansion of sports-related pictographs. The skin tone modifiers were introduced later to provide better representation for global users of mobile messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🤾🏼

Unicode

U+1F93E U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93e_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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

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