People & Body · Emoji 3.0
🤺Person Fencing Emoji
Basically, it means “I’m challenging you!” or “Let’s compete.”
The 🤺 emoji is the "fencing" emoji.
- Unicode
- U+1F93A
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :fencer:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🤺 Person Fencing emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as sword emoji, fencing emoji, fencer emoji.
02 — Platforms
Person Fencing emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the person fencing as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Person Fencing 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 :fencer:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F93A.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🤺 Person Fencing emoji
No picker to hand? The person fencing can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Person Fencing emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Person Fencing emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person fencing 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.
07 — 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.
08 — Apps
What 🤺 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
🤺 vs 🏋️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Fencing
Code: U+1F93A · added 2016
Shortcode: :fencer:
Basically, it means “I’m challenging you!”
Unicode name: Person Lifting Weights
Code: U+1F3CB U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :weight_lifter:
Generally, it just means someone is talking about working out or being physically strong.
11 — History
Where the 🤺 Person Fencing emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F93A 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.
Person Fencing was approved as U+1F93A and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (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, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ