This emoji is the internet’s signal for powering through choppy vibes, making a low-key exit, or announcing lake-day plans like a wholesome outdoorsy main character. People use it to say “I’m navigating this mess,” “we’re in the same boat,” or, with peak sarcasm, “rowing away from responsibilities as we speak.” It also pops up with crew/rowing fans during regattas, Olympics hype, and those “erg life” gym posts where the sweat is real and the captions are unhinged. Bonus meme mode: pair it with “row row row your boat” when you’re gently drifting past drama—or not-so-gently speed rowing from red flags.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll see a seated figure in a compact rowboat at a slight three-quarter angle, hands gripping a pair of oars with that mid-stroke lean. The styling is clean and bright, with bold colors, simple shading, and a calm, neutral face; the medium-light skin tone shows on the hands and face. The boat and oars are front-and-center, no water background, so it looks ready to glide across your chat. Culturally, it channels crew energy (Henley vibes, Oxford–Cambridge bragging rights) and weekend-at-the-lake aesthetics—equally useful for humble brags, ironic retreats, and “paddle faster, I hear banjos” humor.
The Rowboat emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 4113 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 Rowboat Man Rowing Boat: Medium-Light Skin Tone person rowing boat: medium-light skin tone man rowing boat: 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) | 1f6a3, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F6A3, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128675, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0xA3, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9A A3, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 232 243, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDEA3, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddea3, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56995, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F6A3 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F6A3, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128675, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F6A3\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9a\xa3\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDEA3\uD83C\uDFFC" |
