Person Surfing: Dark Skin Tone

🏄🏿 is the dark skin tone version of 🏄 Person Surfing. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them.

See the default 🏄 Person Surfing emoji and all skin tones

Skin tones

Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.

person surfing

person surfing: light skin tone

person surfing: medium-light skin tone

person surfing: medium skin tone

person surfing: medium-dark skin tone

person surfing: dark skin tone

Where person-sport emoji usually appear

DBEmoji editorial interpretation

Applies to every emoji in this Unicode subgroup, not only this one.

Posting workouts, match reactions, and personal records
Tagging training logs, fixtures, and event recaps

Technical details

Source: Unicode Consortium

CLDR short name: person surfing: dark skin tone
Codepoint: U+1F3C4 U+1F3FF
Hex: 1F3C4 1F3FF
Emoji version: 1.0
Unicode version: 8.0
First released: 2015
Unicode group: People & Body
Unicode subgroup: person-sport
DBEmoji collection: Sport
Skin tone: dark
Status: Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)

Sport is a DBEmoji collection drawn from Unicode’s People & Body group (the person-sport subgroup — people performing sports). How this data is built

Keywords

Source: Unicode CLDR

beach · dark skin tone · ocean · person · sport · surf · surfer · surfing · swell · waves

How it looks

Person Surfing: Dark Skin Tone — Fluent 3D — Fluent 3D

Person Surfing: Dark Skin Tone — Fluent Color — Fluent Color

Person Surfing: Dark Skin Tone — Fluent Flat — Fluent Flat

Your device

Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)

Download as image

Renders 🏄🏿 with your system emoji font into PNG, WebP, or SVG. Pick a pixel size, then download.

Note: PNG and WebP use the emoji font installed on your device (Apple Color Emoji on macOS/iOS, Segoe UI Emoji on Windows, Noto Color Emoji on Android/Linux), so the look matches your platform. SVG embeds the character as text — rendering depends on the viewer.

Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork

Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of 🏄🏿. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.

Questions people ask

What does the 🏄🏿 person surfing: dark skin tone emoji mean?: 🏄🏿 is the dark skin tone version of 🏄 Person Surfing. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them.
What is the Unicode codepoint for 🏄🏿?: U+1F3C4 U+1F3FF.
When was the 🏄🏿 person surfing: dark skin tone emoji released?: It was added in Emoji 1.0, published in 2015, alongside Unicode 8.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
How do I type 🏄🏿 on my phone or computer?: On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “person surfing”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🏄🏿 from this page with one click.