Person surfing: light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a fair skin tone riding a surfboard atop a large ocean wave. The figure is shown in a balanced, athletic stance with their arms outstretched to maintain stability on the water.

Usage Context

Widely used to discuss beach vacations, summer activities, or a love for water sports. People frequently use it when talking about hitting the coast or enjoying an outdoor adventure. It is often paired with emojis like 🌊, 🏖️, or ☀️ to set a tropical or active mood.

History

Surfing has been a central part of Polynesian culture for centuries, but the sport exploded into global pop culture in the mid-20th century. The base surfing emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010, with the skin tone modifiers arriving in 2015 to allow for more accurate representation of diverse surfers worldwide.

Details

Glyph

🏄🏻

Unicode

U+1F3C4 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3c4_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFC4;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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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