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🏄 Emoji meaning

Surfing, wave riding, water sports, sun, sea, and a way of life.

🏄 Meaning

Surfing the perfect wave or the Internet. On a special board you let yourself be carried over the water by the impetus of a wave. Surfing is a popular water sport. Sun, sea, Hawaii and a very specific way of life.

Examples

  • I'm going surfing. 🏄
  • The waves are perfect! 🏄
  • Want to come to the beach? 🏄

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Person surfing
Skier

Skier vs surfer; both show a figure on a plank sliding over a surface, snow or water distinction may be missed.

Person surfing

Surfer vs swimmer; both occur in water and are used for beach or swimming pool themes.

Person surfing

Mountain biking vs surfing; both dynamic sports on boards or bikes that suggest extreme sport.

ZWJ Sequence

Person surfing
Man surfing

Surfer vs man surfing; again, same action with gender change only.

Person surfing
Woman surfing

Surfer vs woman surfing; same sport with gender variant.

Variants

Skin tones
Person surfing
Person surfing: light skin tone
Person surfing: medium-light skin tone
Person surfing: medium skin tone
Person surfing: medium-dark skin tone
Person surfing: dark skin tone
gender

U+1F3C4 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F

Man surfing
Skin tones
Man surfing
Man surfing: light skin tone
Man surfing: medium-light skin tone
Man surfing: medium skin tone
Man surfing: medium-dark skin tone
Man surfing: dark skin tone
gender

U+1F3C4 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F

Woman surfing
Skin tones
Woman surfing
Woman surfing: light skin tone
Woman surfing: medium-light skin tone
Woman surfing: medium skin tone
Woman surfing: medium-dark skin tone
Woman surfing: dark skin tone

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Person surfing” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ beach + ocean + person + sport + surf + surfer + swell + waves

Keywords removed

- person surfing

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ person surfing

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there were 2 changes.

Emoji title renamed

Emoji title before

surfer

Emoji title after

person surfing

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ surfing

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- surfer - surfing

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