People & Body · Emoji 4.0
🏄♂️Man Surfing Emoji
Usually, it just means someone is talking about surfing or wanting to surf. It’s a fun way to express a feeling of excitement and being on an adventure.
The 🏄♂️ emoji is a man surfing.
- Unicode
- U+1F3C4 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :man-
surfing: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🏄♂️ Man Surfing emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 9.
02 — Platforms
Man Surfing emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F3C4 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your man surfing looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man Surfing emoji skin tones
🏄♂️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Man Surfing emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :man-surfing:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F3C4.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🏄♂️ Man Surfing emoji
No picker to hand? The man surfing can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Man Surfing emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man surfing as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Man Surfing emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man surfing for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🏄♂️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Apps
What 🏄♂️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3C4, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🏄♂️ vs 🏋️♂️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Surfing
Code: U+1F3C4 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-surfing:
Usually, it just means someone is talking about surfing or wanting to surf.
Unicode name: Man Lifting Weights
Code: U+1F3CB U+FE0F U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-lifting-weights:
Generally, it means someone is talking about working out, being strong, or putting in effort.
12 — History
Where the 🏄♂️ Man Surfing emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 4.0, the man surfing has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F3C4 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Man Surfing was approved as U+1F3C4 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🏄♂️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ