This emoji shows a determined human powering a small rowboat, ideal for messages about effort, calm escapes, or bailing out of chaos with quiet dignity. People drop it when they’re “going with the flow,” handling a solo mission, or signaling a lakeside vacation flex—bonus points if it’s paired with a sunset pic and a humblebrag caption. In group chats it can mean “I got this,” “we’re in the same boat,” or—ironically—“this meeting is going nowhere, so I’m rowing away.” It also pops up in fandom or shipping jokes (literally shipping), and in meme-speak for paddling through Monday blues one stroke at a time.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a side-on yellow dinghy cutting through blue waves, a brown oar mid-stroke, and a focused rower in a bright top or life vest vibe, face in profile with a neutral, on-task expression. The light skin tone version adds the fair skin modifier, keeping the same yellow boat, crisp blue water, and clean emoji shading. The whole scene screams calm-but-committed: no dramatic splashes, just steady rhythm and tidy lines.
Culturally, it nods to crew vibes, regatta season, and that Oxford–Cambridge energy—while still totally working for “camp weekend on the lake.” It’s used playfully to say “I’m navigating drama,” “hard carry mode activated,” or as a flirty outdoorsy signal on dating apps. Pairs well with waves, compass, or sunrise emojis for an aesthetic mini-travelogue, and with a skull or fire emoji when you’re rowing away from a spicy group chat like a polite chaos goblin.
The Rowboat emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 4112 of 2393 |
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| 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: | White Rowboat Man Rowing Boat: Light Skin Tone person rowing boat: light skin tone man rowing boat: light skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| 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) | 1f6a3, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F6A3, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128675, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0xA3, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9A A3, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 232 243, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDEA3, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddea3, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56995, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F6A3 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F6A3, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128675, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F6A3\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9a\xa3\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDEA3\uD83C\uDFFB" |
