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The person rowing boat emoji is your digital "I got this, but it's gonna take some elbow grease" badge. It's a lone paddler in a small rowboat, symbolizing self-reliance, steady progress, or tbh just trying to get through Monday. People drop it to say they're "going with the flow," "paddling against the current," escaping drama, or carrying the group project solo. It also pops up with Row Row Row Your Boat jokes, lake-day plans, or as a cheeky escape-plan meme when a chat gets chaotic.
On Apple/iOS, the figure leans forward in a bright yellow rowboat, oar in both hands, slicing through stylized blue water lines. The person wears an orange life vest, neutral expression, and faces slightly left, giving the scene a motion-is-happening vibe. Skin tones are supported, and gendered versions exist (man/woman rowing boat), but the base looks pleasantly gender-neutral. The brown wooden oar and the glossy yellow hull are the instantly recognizable bits.
Online, it can be sarcasticβ"sure, Iβll just row across town"βor dramatic, like plotting a cinematic getaway from responsibilities. Flirty? Pair it with a sunset and youβve got soft rom-com energy. In sports talk, it nods to crew/rowing culture and regatta season, even if the emoji shows a solo dinghy rather than a sleek racing shell. Use it for travel daydreams, determination arcs, or that stubborn "Iβm rowing my own boat, thanks" independence flex.
The side of a row boat with person inside. A row boat is powered by a person or people that use oars or paddles to propel forward. This particular person has a long way to go. Exhausting and not very fast.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1529 of 2393 |
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| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :rowboat: |
| Keywords | Boat, Row, Oar, Paddle |
| Previous Names: | Rowboat Man Rowing Boat person rowing boat man rowing boat |
| Unicode Category | Transport and Map Symbols |
| Unicode Range | 1F680β1F6FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Vehicles |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | π£ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | π£ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🚣 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🚣 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f6a3 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F6A3 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128675 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0xA3 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9A A3 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 232 243 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDEA3 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddea3 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56995 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F6A3 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F6A3 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128675 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F6A3" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9a\xa3" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDEA3" |
