A sporty little scene in one emoji: a man in a rowboat, oar in hand, cutting through the water — now shown with a dark skin tone for a more inclusive vibe. On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a side-view figure wearing a bright life vest, gripping a wooden oar, perched in a small boat with clean blue ripples that make you hear imaginary splashes. The pose screams “upper-body workout,” and the angle feels like he’s powering forward, not just drifting. It’s the visual equivalent of “BRB, touching grass (and water).”
People use this emoji for literal boating plans, crew practice updates, and summer-lake nostalgia, but it really shines as a metaphor for effort: rowing through Monday, paddling against deadlines, or inching toward that goal one stroke at a time. In texts and tweets, it doubles as an escape hatch — “rowing away from the group chat drama” — or a playful “I’m out” when the conversation goes off the rails. It also lands as ironic commentary when life feels like an oar-deal (pun 100% intended), or when you’re doing the most with the least: pure manual grind energy. Add a flirty spin and it’s “I’ll row us to sunset,” which is basically the soft-launch of date plans.
Culturally, it nods to crew and regatta life — think pre-dawn river practices and the Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race — even if the emoji’s single-oar look is more casual rowboat than elite scull. On social media, it’s a go-to for “go with the flow” posts, lake-day photo dumps, and “navigating choppy waters” life updates. Whether you’re channeling calm, hustle, or strategic retreat, this tiny boat is big on story.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3240 of 2393 |
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| 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 | |
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| 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) | 1f6a3, 1f3ff, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F6A3, U+1F3FF, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128675, 127999, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0xA3, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9A A3, F0 9F 8F BF, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 232 243, 360 237 217 277, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDEA3, 0xD83C 0xDFFF, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddea3, d83cdfff, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56995, 55356 57343, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F6A3 0x0001F3FF 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F6A3, 01F3FF, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128675, 127999, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F6A3\U0001F3FF\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9a\xa3\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDEA3\uD83C\uDFFF\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
