Meet person bouncing ball: medium-light skin tone — the emoji that basically yells “who’s got next?” without typing a paragraph. It stands in for hoop culture, rec-league invites, highlight-reel confidence, and the universal truth that ball is, in fact, life. On Apple/iOS, it’s a gender‑neutral athlete in a blue jersey and shorts, dribbling an orange basketball with a slight forward lean, knees bent, white sneakers on, and a calm, focused face; the medium‑light skin tone shows on the arms and legs. You can practically hear the squeak of the court.
People drop this emoji to organize pickup runs, live‑tweet NBA or WNBA games, or brag about their handles after an ankle‑breaker at the gym. It’s also great for wordplay: use it for bounce-back energy after an L, or sarcastically when someone “dropped the ball” on plans. Flirty mode? Pair it with “shooting my shot” and watch the DMs rim-rattle. Meme-wise, it carries playground nostalgia (counting down “3…2…1!”) and March Madness hype, and it fits perfectly under posts flexing new kicks or crossover clips.
The Person with Ball emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 4050 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: | Light Brown Person with Ball Man Bouncing Ball: Medium-Light Skin Tone person bouncing ball: medium-light skin tone man bouncing ball: medium-light skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - 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) | 26f9, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+26F9, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9977, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9B 0xB9, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9B B9, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 233 271, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x26F9, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | 26f9, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9977, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x000026F9 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 26F9, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9977, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\u26F9\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9b\xb9\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u26F9\uD83C\uDFFC" |
