Person fencing
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- Shortcode
:person_fencing:- Unicode
U+1F93A- HTML
🤺- CSS
\1F93A- JavaScript
"\u{1F93A}"- URL
%F0%9F%A4%BA
What 🤺 means
A fencer in a mask and white gear, blade out. It stands for the sport of fencing and, playfully, for a duel or a challenge.
Fencers and fans use it for bouts, tournaments, and practice. In chat it says “en garde”: ready to argue, compete, or take someone on, usually in a joking tone. It suits a heated but friendly debate.
It has no skin tone options, and the mask hides the fencer's face.
Facts
Person fencing 🤺 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person sport. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :person_fencing:. People also look for it with words like “fencer”, “fencing”, “person”, or “sword”.
Timeline
- 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 3.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2025
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.