This emoji shows a solo rower powering through the water, now with a dark skin tone modifier that makes the character look like you or your friend who actually knows how to paddle. It’s perfect for “I’m steering my own course,” “off to clear my head,” or the classic internet vibe: rowing away from chaos like, not my bay, not my waves. People drop it in group chats when they’re peacing out of drama, signaling a strategic retreat, or flexing their outdoorsy, lake-day energy.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a side-profile figure seated in a small rowboat, hands gripping a single oar mid-stroke, cutting across a neat strip of blue water. The character wears a bright, life-vest-style top and sits in a slim, canoe-like boat with clean, saturated colors and crisp outlines; the face is neutral, all business, posture leaning into the pull like a real crew athlete. It looks like a freeze-frame from a fitness montage—just enough splash to feel the motion, without soaking your phone.
Beyond the literal boat ride, it’s meme fuel for “rowing away from problems,” “navigating feelings,” or “I’ll find my own lane.” Fitness folks use it for crew practice, erg workouts, or regatta hype; romantics slip it into flirty invites for sunset paddles; comedians pair it with dramatic texts when they’re done rocking the boat and ready to row. Think summer camp nostalgia, Olympic sculling dreams, and that one friend who treats every lake like the final of the Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race.
Whether you’re escaping the TL, manifesting smooth waters only, or signaling a low-key adventure, this emoji says: we move—by oar, not by drama.
The Rowboat emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 4116 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: | Black Rowboat Man Rowing Boat: Dark Skin Tone person rowing boat: dark skin tone man rowing boat: dark 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F6A3, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128675, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0xA3, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9A A3, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 232 243, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDEA3, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddea3, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56995, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F6A3 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F6A3, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128675, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F6A3\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9a\xa3\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDEA3\uD83C\uDFFF" |
