🚣♂️Man Rowing Boat Emoji
Usually, it just means someone is thinking about rowing a boat or enjoying a calm water activity. It's a pretty straightforward emoji, often used to express a feeling of peace or leisure.
The 🚣♂️ emoji is a man rowing a canoe or kayak.
- Unicode
- U+1F6A3 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :man-rowing-boat:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🚣♂️ Man Rowing Boat emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 13.
Man Rowing Boat emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F6A3 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your man rowing boat looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Man Rowing Boat emoji skin tones
🚣♂️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Man Rowing Boat emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :man-rowing-boat:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F6A3.
How to type the 🚣♂️ Man Rowing Boat emoji
No picker to hand? The man rowing boat can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Man Rowing Boat emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Man Rowing Boat emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man rowing boat for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🚣♂️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🚣♂️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🚣♂️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the man rowing boat lands changes how it is taken.
🚣♂️ vs 🏋️♂️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Rowing Boat
Code: U+1F6A3 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-rowing-boat:
Usually, it just means someone is thinking about rowing a boat or enjoying a calm water activity.
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.
Where the 🚣♂️ Man Rowing Boat emoji came from
It arrived with the 4.0 release of the standard, which dates the man rowing boat to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F6A3 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 Rowing Boat was approved as U+1F6A3 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.