Person surfing: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned person balancing on a surfboard while riding a curling ocean wave. The figure is shown in a dynamic pose, capturing the sport of surfing in motion.

Usage Context

Used to discuss beach trips, summer vacations, or the pursuit of water sports. It frequently appears in conversations about coastal travel or fitness activities. It is often grouped with other aquatic icons like 🌊 or 🏖️ to set a tropical scene.

History

The base surfing emoji arrived in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, while the skin tone modifiers were added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 as part of an effort to provide a more inclusive range of human representation across digital platforms.

Details

Glyph

🏄🏿

Unicode

U+1F3C4 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3c4_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFC4;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

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

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository