Person swimming emoji ๐
Emoji 0.6 (2010) ยท U+1F3CA
Skin tones ยท Tap a tone to copy it.
What ๐ means
Person swimming ๐ goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: freestyle, person, sport, swim, swimmer, swimming, triathlon.
Those words also drive emoji search: try freestyle or person on your phone to find ๐.
On the emoji keyboard, ๐ sits with the people playing sports (43 emoji) inside people & body, which has 390 emoji, for example ๐โโ๏ธ ๐โโ๏ธ โน๏ธ โน๏ธโโ๏ธ.
You can send ๐ in 5 skin tones (๐๐ป to ๐๐ฟ) or in the default yellow; tap any of them above to copy it.
Will ๐ show on my friend's phone?
๐ has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type ๐
To find ๐ quickly, type person swimming into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type person swimming.
- Mac: press Ctrl+โ+Space and type person swimming in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type person swimming.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees ๐ as one code point, U+1F3CA: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F3CA | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🏊 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🏊 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F3CA"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3CA} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8F%8A | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F 8A |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of ๐ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | person swimming |
| Portuguรชs | pessoa nadando |
| Espaรฑol | persona nadando |
| Italiano | persona che nuota |
| Franรงais | personne nageant |
| Deutsch | Schwimmer(in) |
| Tรผrkรงe | yรผzen kiลi |
| Bahasa Indonesia | orang berenang |
| Polski | pลywajฤ ca osoba |
| ะ ัััะบะธะน | ะฟะปะฐะฒะฐะฝะธะต |
| ๆฅๆฌ่ช | ๆณณใไบบ |
| ํ๊ตญ์ด | ์์ํ๋ ์ฌ๋ |
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What does the person swimming emoji mean?
Unicode calls ๐ "person swimming" and links it with freestyle, person, sport, swim. 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 swimming emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
Can I change the skin tone of ๐?
Yes. ๐ has these skin tones: ๐๐ป ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฝ ๐๐พ ๐๐ฟ. 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.