Person surfing

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Shortcode
:surfer:
Shortcode
:person_surfing:
Unicode
U+1F3C4
HTML
🏄
CSS
\1F3C4
JavaScript
"\u{1F3C4}"
URL
%F0%9F%8F%84

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What ๐Ÿ„ means

A surfer riding a wave. It means surfing and beach life, and also the idea of riding momentum or going with the flow.

Beach days, surf trips, and summer plans get it, usually beside ๐ŸŒŠ and โ˜€๏ธ. Figuratively it shows riding a wave of success, catching a trend, or staying chill while chaos moves underneath. Old-school โ€œsurfing the webโ€ jokes use it too.

Facts

Person surfing ๐Ÿ„ 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 6.0 (2010). 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 :surfer: or :person_surfing:. People also look for it with words like โ€œbeachโ€, โ€œoceanโ€, โ€œpersonโ€, or โ€œsportโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
  2. 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)
  3. 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)๐Ÿ„โ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ„โ€โ™€๏ธ

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. person surfing, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. person surfing, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. person surfing, Google (Noto) design from 20192019
  4. person surfing, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  5. person surfing, Google (Noto) design from 20252025

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. person surfing, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. person surfing, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  3. person surfing, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20192019

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body ยท Unicode 6.0

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