Woman surfing: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with medium-dark skin riding a surfboard across a blue ocean wave. She is balanced in a classic surfing stance with her arms extended to maintain stability on the water.

Usage Context

Used to describe a day at the beach, a love for water sports, or someone heading out to catch some waves. It serves as a go-to icon for summer vacation plans or outdoor athletic activities. It is frequently sent alongside related oceanic emojis like 🌊 or 🏖️ to set the scene for a trip to the coast.

History

Surfing has long been a staple of pop culture, appearing in early 1960s beach films and surf rock music. This specific emoji variant was added as part of the Emoji 4.0 update in 2016, which introduced gender and skin tone modifiers to make digital communication more representative of the global population.

Details

Glyph

🏄🏾‍♀

Unicode

U+1F3C4 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3c4_1f3fe_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFC4;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♀

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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