A versatile shout-out to hoop culture, this emoji shows a gender-neutral player mid-dribble, now with a rich dark skin tone for more personal representation. On Apple/iOS, expect a clean, almost courtside action shot: an orange basketball popping against a sporty outfit, the figure angled in profile with a bent knee, arm outstretched, and a calm game-face that says, "I’ve got handles." The shading is sleek, the pose is dynamic, and you can practically hear the squeak of sneakers and the thump of the ball.
People use it to say “let’s run 5s,” celebrate NBA nights or March Madness, or flex a smooth crossover after the gym. It doubles as meme fuel—think “we ball,” “ankle breaker energy,” or a sly “shoot your shot” in flirty DMs. It’s also perfect for wordplay: “gotta bounce” when you’re leaving, or “bouncing back” after an L. Sarcastically, it’s great for ghosting jokes—“sorry, can’t hear you over this dribble”—or calling out someone who keeps the conversation on the backcourt. Bonus points for Space Jam nostalgia, park runs at dusk, and Rucker Park daydreams—this little baller fits them all.
The Person with Ball emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 4053 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: | Black Person with Ball Man Bouncing Ball: Dark Skin Tone person bouncing ball: dark skin tone man bouncing ball: dark skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - 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) | 26f9, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+26F9, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9977, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9B 0xB9, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9B B9, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 233 271, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x26F9, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | 26f9, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9977, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x000026F9 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 26F9, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9977, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\u26F9\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9b\xb9\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u26F9\uD83C\uDFFF" |
