Person playing handball emoji 🤾
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F93E
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🤾 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Person playing handball 🤾 is tagged with these keywords: athletics, ball, catch, chuck, handball, hurl, lob, person, pitch, playing.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing athletics or ball in the emoji search brings up 🤾.
Person 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 3.0 in 2016. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
How to type 🤾
Any emoji picker finds 🤾 when you search for athletics.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type person playing handball.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type person playing handball in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type person playing handball.
Codes for developers
Person playing handball 🤾 is a single code point, U+1F93E. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F93E | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤾 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤾 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F93E"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F93E} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%BE | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 BE |
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 | person playing handball |
| Português | handebol |
| Español | persona jugando al balonmano |
| Italiano | persona che gioca a pallamano |
| Français | personne jouant au handball |
| Deutsch | Handballspieler(in) |
| Türkçe | hentbol |
| Bahasa Indonesia | orang bermain bola tangan |
| Polski | osoba grająca w piłkę ręczną |
| Русский | гандбол |
| 日本語 | ハンドボールをする人 |
| 한국어 | 핸드볼하는 사람 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the person playing handball emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤾 "person 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 person playing handball emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, 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.