Man playing handball emoji 🤾♂️
Emoji 4.0 (2016) · U+1F93E U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🤾♂️ means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Man playing handball 🤾♂️ is tagged with these keywords: athletics, ball, catch, chuck, handball, hurl, lob, man, pitch, playing.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing athletics or ball in the emoji search brings up 🤾♂️.
Man playing handball 🤾♂️ is one of 43 emoji in the people playing sports subgroup of people & body (390 emoji), next to 🤾♀️ 🤹 🤹♂️ 🤹♀️.
🤾♂️ comes in 5 skin tones, from 🤾🏻♂️ to 🤾🏿♂️, plus the default yellow. Tap a tone above to copy it.
Will 🤾♂️ show on my friend's phone?
🤾♂️ arrived with Emoji 4.0 in 2016. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
What 🤾♂️ is made of
Technically 🤾♂️ is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🤾 person playing handball + ♂️ male sign. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type 🤾♂️
Any emoji picker finds 🤾♂️ when you search for man playing handball.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type man playing handball.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type man playing handball in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type man playing handball.
Codes for developers
Man playing handball 🤾♂️ is written with 4 code points: U+1F93E U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. In UTF-8 it takes 13 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 5.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F93E U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤾‍♂️ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤾‍♂️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F93E \200D \2642 \FE0F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F93E}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%BE%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 BE E2 80 8D E2 99 82 EF B8 8F |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🤾♂️ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | man playing handball |
| Português | jogador de handebol |
| Español | hombre jugando al balonmano |
| Italiano | pallamanista uomo |
| Français | handballeur |
| Deutsch | Handballspieler |
| Türkçe | hentbol oynayan erkek |
| Bahasa Indonesia | pria bermain bola tangan |
| Polski | mężczyzna grający w piłkę ręczną |
| Русский | гандболист |
| 日本語 | ハンドボールをする男 |
| 한국어 | 핸드볼하는 남자 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the man playing handball emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤾♂️ "man playing handball" and links it with athletics, ball, catch, chuck. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people playing sports subgroup of people & body.
When was the man playing handball emoji added?
In Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🤾♂️?
Yes. 🤾♂️ has these skin tones: 🤾🏻♂️ 🤾🏼♂️ 🤾🏽♂️ 🤾🏾♂️ 🤾🏿♂️. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.