This emoji rides in like a salty breeze: a gender-neutral surfer with a medium-light skin tone carving across a bright blue wave. On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a crouched stance on a yellow surfboard, one arm forward for balance, white sea spray curling behind, and a sporty top/shorts combo—classic action-shot energy from a three-quarter side view. It screams beach day, hang ten, and “see you at golden hour,” but also doubles as a vibe check for momentum—riding wins, trends, or even the chaos of your inbox.
Online, people drop it to announce surf trips, sunny escapism, or metaphorical flow: “riding the algorithm wave,” “go with the flow,” or “caught a swell of good luck.” It can be flexy (coastal life goals), flirty (let’s catch a wave together), or sarcastic (“just surfing through this disaster lol”). Expect it in captions next to wipeout fails, Point Break jokes, or “gnarly” stoke posts. It’s also meme-friendly for trend-chasing arcs—today’s sound, this week’s TikTok wave, tomorrow’s wipeout—cowabunga, content.
The Surfer emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 4084 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | Light Brown Surfer man surfing: medium-light skin tone Man Surfing: Medium-Light Skin Tone person surfing: medium-light skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🏄🏼 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🏄🏼 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🏄 🏼 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🏄 🏼 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f3c4, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3C4, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127940, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x84, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F 84, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 204, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFC4, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfc4, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57284, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3C4 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3C4, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127940, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3C4\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\x84\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFC4\uD83C\uDFFC" |
