What ๐๏ธ means
A lifter holding a barbell overhead. It means the gym, strength training, and working hard to get stronger.
People post it for leg day, new personal records, and gym check-ins, with ๐ช close behind. It also describes heavy lifting in a figurative sense, like carrying a whole team project alone.
Facts
Person lifting weights ๐๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person sport. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :weight_lifting: or :person_lifting_weights:. People also look for it with words like โbarbellโ, โbodybuilderโ, โdeadliftโ, or โlifterโ.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
- 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 2.0)
- 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)๐๏ธโโ๏ธ๐๏ธโโ๏ธ
Design history
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Unicode 7.0