🤽 meaning at a glance
- Plain meaning: Unicode calls this emoji “person playing water polo.” It can show the person, gesture, role, look, or action called person playing water polo.
- Usual tone: Human · Contextual
- Use with care: Read the words around it. The relationship, culture, and app design can change how it feels.
- Technical type: Single-Code-Point Emoji from Emoji 3.0
What does 🤽 mean in messages?
Unicode calls this emoji “person playing water polo.” It can show the person, gesture, role, look, or action called person playing water polo.
Use 🤽 for people, gestures, roles, identity, or physical actions. Unicode calls it “person playing water polo.” That name is a safe, neutral label when the social meaning is not clear.
For a wider view, browse people & body emoji, use the emoji meaning finder, or read the family and gender emoji guide.
Example messages with 🤽
Unicode construction and code points
This copyable emoji is a single-code-point emoji. It uses 1 core Unicode code point: U+1F93D water polo.
U+1F93Dwater poloVersion and platform support
The person playing water polo emoji was introduced in Emoji 3.0 and is classified in the person sport subgroup. This emoji has broad support on modern platforms, but its artwork can still differ substantially between vendors.
Names, keywords, and classification
The standardized name is “person playing water polo.” Search terms indexed for this entry include person, playing, polo, water. It belongs to People & Body and the person sport subgroup. These labels help identify and find the character; they do not prove a sender’s intended tone.
Accessibility and clear wording
For alt text, start with “person playing water polo.” Use clearer words when the emoji is only decoration, a metaphor, or slang.
Do not use this emoji as the only carrier of an emergency, deadline, consent decision, medical instruction, or other high-stakes message. The character is standardized, but Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and social platforms supply different artwork.