Person playing handball: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A figure with medium-toned skin captured mid-motion while preparing to throw a small ball. The person is shown with one arm raised behind their head, ready to hurl the ball forward with force.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss team sports, physical training, or the act of throwing or tossing an object. It is frequently sent by sports fans during tournament season or used to signal a high-energy activity, often appearing alongside sports-related icons like ⚽ or 🏆.

History

The person playing handball emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the push to represent a wider variety of athletic activities beyond the standard ball sports. The addition of skin tone modifiers followed the 2015 Unicode update that introduced diverse human representations across the emoji keyboard.

Details

Glyph

🤾🏽

Unicode

U+1F93E U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93e_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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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