The person playing handball: medium skin tone emoji brings full send energy—think mid-air leap, tiny ball, big drama. People use it to hype actual handball (the Olympic/European kind, not wallball), brag about a clutch play, or just to say “I’m throwing myself at this goal/life/Tuesday.” It doubles as a cheeky metaphor for launching ideas, lobbing a hot take, or yeeting problems into the void. In texts and tweets, it can read flirty (“catch this pass?”), sarcastic (“tossing responsibilities elsewhere”), or celebratory after a fast-break win.
On Apple/iOS, the figure is in a dynamic jump-shot pose facing right—one knee tucked, the throwing arm cocked back, the other arm balancing the motion. The small ball is distinctly orange, and the outfit pops in sporty, high-contrast colors with Apple’s smooth gradients and clean edges; there’s no goal in frame, just you and the moment. The expression is determined-but-neutral, classic Apple style, with a clear three-quarter angle that screams action shot. This version includes a medium skin tone for representation, keeping the character gender-inclusive and game-ready. Culturally, it nods to Europe’s beloved indoor handball and Olympic highlights, but online it’s equally at home signaling hustle, adrenaline, and that “jumping into the weekend” meme energy.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2462 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - 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) | 1f93e, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F93E, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129342, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0xBE, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 BE, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 276, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD3E, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd3e, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56638, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F93E 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F93E, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129342, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F93E\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\xbe\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD3E\uD83C\uDFFD" |
