People & Body · Emoji 3.0
🤾Person Playing Handball Emoji
Generally, the 🤾 emoji simply means someone is playing handball. It’s a visual representation of the sport.
The 🤾 emoji represents a person playing handball.
- Unicode
- U+1F93E
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :handball:
- Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🤾 Person Playing Handball emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Person Playing Handball emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F93E — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your person playing handball 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
Person Playing Handball 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
Person Playing Handball 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 :handball:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the person playing handball, code point U+1F93E.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🤾 Person Playing Handball emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F93E when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Person Playing Handball 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
Microsoft
WhatsApp
07 — Combinations
Person Playing Handball emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person playing handball 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
Who sent the person playing handball and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — 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.
11 — Difference
🤾 vs 🤸 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Playing Handball
Code: U+1F93E · added 2016
Shortcode: :handball:
Generally, the 🤾 emoji simply means someone is playing handball.
Unicode name: Person Cartwheeling
Code: U+1F938 · added 2016
Shortcode: :person_doing_cartwheel:
Generally, the 🤸 emoji means someone is feeling energetic, happy, or excited about something.
12 — History
Where the 🤾 Person Playing Handball emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 3.0, the person playing handball has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F93E 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 Playing Handball was approved as U+1F93E 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.
13 — FAQ