The person rowing boat: medium skin tone emoji is pure "grit meets vibes"—a lone paddler powering across the water like they’ve got places to be and zero interest in group chat drama. People use it for outdoor adventure plans, crew practice flexes, or the universal mood of "I’m just gonna keep rowing through this chaos." It’s also a go-to for dramatic exits (paddling away from the tea), sarcastic "sure, I’ll handle it myself" energy, and the classic nursery-rhyme wink: row, row, row your inbox. The medium skin tone adds representation while keeping the same sporty, independent spirit.
On Apple/iOS, it leans canoe/kayak more than old-school rowboat: a person in a bright yellow/orange boat with a red life vest, blue waves underneath, and a wooden oar angled across their body. The view is side-on, with a forward-leaning, determined pose—very "athletic montage" energy. The face is calm and focused, no cartoonish grin, which makes it perfect for "I’m paddling, not panicking." It shows up in posts about lake days, regattas, the Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race hype, or that "soft-launching my vacation" photo dump.
Online, it doubles as a meme for "go with the flow" or, ironically, "fighting upstream but smiling anyway." You’ll see it in texts like "OTW, but by boat" or "escaping Monday," and in DMs when someone is literally rowing right past a red flag. It’s also low-key flirty in the "come paddle with me" sense, and high-key relatable when you’re solo-queuing life with sink-or-swim energy.
The Rowboat emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 4114 of 2393 |
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| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
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| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
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| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | Olive Toned Rowboat Man Rowing Boat: Medium Skin Tone person rowing boat: medium skin tone man rowing boat: medium 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F6A3, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128675, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0xA3, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9A A3, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 232 243, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDEA3, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddea3, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56995, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F6A3 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F6A3, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128675, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F6A3\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9a\xa3\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDEA3\uD83C\uDFFD" |
