U+1F3CA "🏊" Swimmer Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🏊
U+1F3CA "🏊" Swimmer is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, depicting a person swimming, often rendered as a human figure in motion within stylized water. This emoji is widely used in digital communication to represent swimming as a sport, leisure activity, or exercise, and it can also symbolize summer, water safety, or aquatic themes. It belongs to the broader category of people and body emojis, with variations available across different platforms that may show gender or skin tone modifications. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0, reflecting the growing need for visual representation of common human activities in text-based communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F3CA |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Swimmer |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🏊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🏊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDFCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F3CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udfca |