U+26F9 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F

⛹🏽‍♂️ Man bouncing ball: medium skin tone

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Category: People & Body
Subcategory: People Doing Sports
Unicode version: 9.0 (2016)
Emoji version: 4.0 (2016)
Status: fully-qualified

What ⛹🏽‍♂️ is made of

This symbol is glued together from several: an invisible joiner sits between them. Software that does not know about the joiner shows the parts separately.

⛹ person bouncing ball U+26F9
🏽 skin tone U+1F3FD
invisible joiner U+200D
♂ male sign U+2642
️ «draw as a picture» marker U+FE0F

Hence the familiar surprise: you send one picture and the other side gets several in a row, and deleting removes the symbol piece by piece. That is not a fault but how the standard itself works.

Will your readers see ⛹🏽‍♂️

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

Apple always there
Google always there
Microsoft always there
Samsung always there

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the ⛹🏽‍♂️ emoji is used

The ⛹🏽‍♂️ smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how man bouncing ball: medium skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

Image size

⛹🏽‍♂️ Your deviceNative system font
Noto Color Emoji Apache License 2.0 💾 SVG
OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0 💾 SVG
Twemoji CC BY 4.0 💾 SVG

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Skin tone · Gender

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English	man bouncing ball: medium skin tone
Русский	мужчина с мячом: средний тон кожи
Deutsch	Mann mit Ball: mittlere Hautfarbe
Español	hombre botando un balón: tono de piel medio
Français	homme avec ballon : peau légèrement mate
Polski	mężczyzna kozłujący piłkę: karnacja średnia
Dansk	mand, der dribler med en bold: medium teint
Українська	чоловік, що веде мʼяч: помірний тон шкіри
Português	homem jogando basquete: pele morena

Unicode CLDR 48

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