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🤺 Emoji meaning

En garde! Fencing, dueling, martial arts, revenge, fighting.

🤺 Meaning

Fight for something or rush one’s fences. Person in fencing clothes with mask and weapon. Martial arts, settling a duel. En garde! Beware, your opponent is striking a fighting position. Illustrates revenge, retribution and signalizes dispute and tough demands.

Examples

  • En garde! 🤺
  • I'm training today. 🤺
  • Have you ever tried fencing? 🤺

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Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

Person fencing

Person fencing vs person running; pose is a forward lunge in both, sometimes read as generic sword-fight/run action.

Same Shape

Person fencing

Cartwheel vs person fencing; both show extended limbs and dynamic motion.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Person fencing” was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 .

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ person

Keywords removed

- person fencing

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ person fencing

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ fencer + fencing + sword

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