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🏄♂️Man Surfing Emoji
🏄♂️ man surfing — U+1F3C4 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F, added in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Unicode groups it with the other 43 athletics emojis under People & Body.
What 🏄♂️ man surfing means
Sports figures, used for match talk, workout posts and the occasional metaphor - 🏋️ for effort, 🤹 for juggling commitments, 🏄 for coasting through something. Unicode 9.0 in 2016 filled the obvious gaps with 🤸, 🤼, 🤽, 🤾 and 🤹, and most entries here now come in man, woman and gender-neutral forms built from one base figure.
Unicode tags this one beach, man and ocean and files it under People & Body → Athletics.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🏄♂️ is built
This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.
- 🏄U+1F3C4person surfing
- ·U+200DZero-width joiner
- ♂U+2642male sign
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3C4 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏄‍♂️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🏄‍♂️ | |
| CSS | \1F3C4\200D\2642\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3C4}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F3C4\U0000200D\U00002642\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFC4\u200D\u2642\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f3c4}\u{200d}\u{2642}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3C4}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3C4}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%84%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F 84 E2 80 8D E2 99 82 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFC4 200D 2642 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+PhOKAjeKZgu+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 127940 8205 9794 65039 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 4.0 (2016) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🏄♂️ emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🏄♂️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “man surfing”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “beach”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3c4and Enter. - HTML — paste
🏄‍♂️.
How 🏄♂️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🏄♂️Apple
- 🏄♂️Segoe
- 🏄♂️Noto
- 🏄♂️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🏄♂️ man surfing emoji mean?+
🏄♂️ is the man surfing emoji, tagged beach, man and ocean. Sports figures, used for match talk, workout posts and the occasional metaphor - 🏋️ for effort, 🤹 for juggling commitments, 🏄 for coasting through something. Unicode 9.0 in 2016 filled the obvious gaps with 🤸, 🤼, 🤽, 🤾 and 🤹, and most entries here now come in man, woman and gender-neutral forms built from one base figure.
What is the Unicode code for 🏄♂️?+
man surfing is U+1F3C4 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🏄‍♂️, in CSS \1F3C4\200D\2642\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F3C4}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏄♂️ emoji added?+
man surfing got its emoji presentation in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Athletics in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 4.0 (2016)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏄♂️ man surfing.