The man surfing: medium-dark skin tone emoji drops you straight into beach mode. On Apple/iOS, he’s shown in a classic surfer stance—knees bent, arms out for balance, short hair catching the breeze—carving across a curling blue wave with bright white spray. The board pops in warm, saturated color, giving the whole scene that glossy, semi-3D Apple shine. You can almost hear the foam roar and taste the salt; it’s the emoji equivalent of a sea breeze and a sunscreen selfie.
People use it to broadcast vacation flexes, beach-day plans, or just big “go with the flow” energy—aka ride the wave of chaos, deadlines, or the algorithm. It doubles as meme-speak for surfing the web, gliding past drama, or posting a chill-but-extra “I’ll figure it out mid-curve” vibe; drop it sarcastically when the day’s a wipeout, or flirtatiously when you’re asking who’s down to catch sunrise sets. It nods to surf culture from Hawai‘i (shoutout Duke Kahanamoku) to California and Australia, with bonus Point Break-level bravado when you’re feeling gnarly. Visually loud yet laid-back, this medium-dark skin tone variant adds a personal touch while keeping the mood sunny, splashy, and just a little bit legendary.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3246 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 11 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🏄🏾♂️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 5 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🏄🏾♂️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🏄 🏾 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🏄 🏾 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f3c4, 1f3fe, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3C4, U+1F3FE, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127940, 127998, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x84, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F 84, F0 9F 8F BE, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 204, 360 237 217 276, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFC4, 0xD83C 0xDFFE, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfc4, d83cdffe, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57284, 55356 57342, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3C4 0x0001F3FE 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3C4, 01F3FE, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127940, 127998, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3C4\U0001F3FE\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\x84\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFC4\uD83C\uDFFE\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
